This is a new document based on my 2022 blog post:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/backporting-patches-using-git
Although this is aimed at stable contributors and distro maintainers,
it does also contain useful tips and tricks for anybody who needs to
resolve merge conflicts.
By adding this to the kernel as documentation we can more easily point
to it e.g. from stable emails about failed backports, as well as allow
the community to modify it over time if necessary.
I've added this under process/ since it also has
process/applying-patches.rst. Another interesting document is
maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst which maybe should eventually refer
to this one, but I'm leaving that as a future cleanup.
Thanks to Harshit Mogalapalli for helping with the original blog post
as well as this updated document and Bagas Sanjaya for providing
thoughtful feedback.
v2: fixed heading style, link style, placeholder style, other comments
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230303162553.17212-1-vegard.nossum@orac…
Cc: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli(a)oracle.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason(a)zx2c4.com>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum(a)oracle.com>
---
Documentation/process/backporting.rst | 514 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 515 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/backporting.rst b/Documentation/process/backporting.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,514 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================
+Backporting and conflict resolution
+===================================
+
+:Author: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum(a)oracle.com>
+
+.. contents::
+ :local:
+ :depth: 3
+ :backlinks: none
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Some developers may never really have to deal with backporting patches,
+merging branches, or resolving conflicts in their day-to-day work, so
+when a merge conflict does pop up, it can be daunting. Luckily,
+resolving conflicts is a skill like any other, and there are many useful
+techniques you can use to make the process smoother and increase your
+confidence in the result.
+
+This document aims to be a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to
+backporting and conflict resolution.
+
+Applying the patch to a tree
+============================
+
+Sometimes the patch you are backporting already exists as a git commit,
+in which case you just cherry-pick it directly using
+``git cherry-pick``. However, if the patch comes from an email, as it
+often does for the Linux kernel, you will need to apply it to a tree
+using ``git am``.
+
+If you've ever used ``git am``, you probably already know that it is
+quite picky about the patch applying perfectly to your source tree. In
+fact, you've probably had nightmares about ``.rej`` files and trying to
+edit the patch to make it apply.
+
+It is strongly recommended to instead find an appropriate base version
+where the patch applies cleanly and *then* cherry-pick it over to your
+destination tree, as this will make git output conflict markers and let
+you resolve conflicts with the help of git and any other conflict
+resolution tools you might prefer to use. For example, if you want to
+apply a patch that just arrived on LKML to an older stable kernel, you
+can apply it to the most recent mainline kernel and then cherry-pick it
+to your older stable branch.
+
+It's generally better to use the exact same base as the one the patch
+was generated from, but it doesn't really matter that much as long as it
+applies cleanly and isn't too far from the original base. The only
+problem with applying the patch to the "wrong" base is that it may pull
+in more unrelated changes in the context of the diff when cherry-picking
+it to the older branch.
+
+If you are using `b4`_. and you are applying the patch directly from an
+email, you can use ``b4 am`` with the options ``-g``/``--guess-base``
+and ``-3``/``--prep-3way`` to do some of this automatically (see the
+`b4 presentation`_ for more information). However, the rest of this
+article will assume that you are doing a plain ``git cherry-pick``.
+
+.. _b4: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-b4-and-patch-attestation
+.. _b4 presentation: https://youtu.be/mF10hgVIx9o?t=2996
+
+Once you have the patch in git, you can go ahead and cherry-pick it into
+your source tree. Don't forget to cherry-pick with ``-x`` if you want a
+written record of where the patch came from!
+
+Note that if you are submiting a patch for stable, the format is
+slightly different; the first line after the subject line needs tobe
+either::
+
+ commit <upstream commit> upstream
+
+or::
+
+ [ Upstream commit <upstream commit> ]
+
+Resolving conflicts
+===================
+
+Uh-oh; the cherry-pick failed with a vaguely threatening message::
+
+ CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict
+
+What to do now?
+
+In general, conflicts appear when the context of the patch (i.e., the
+lines being changed and/or the lines surrounding the changes) doesn't
+match what's in the tree you are trying to apply the patch *to*.
+
+For backports, what likely happened was that the branch you are
+backporting from contains patches not in the branch you are backporting
+to. However, the reverse is also possible. In any case, the result is a
+conflict that needs to be resolved.
+
+If your attempted cherry-pick fails with a conflict, git automatically
+edits the files to include so-called conflict markers showing you where
+the conflict is and how the two branches have diverged. Resolving the
+conflict typically means editing the end result in such a way that it
+takes into account these other commits.
+
+Resolving the conflict can be done either by hand in a regular text
+editor or using a dedicated conflict resolution tool.
+
+Many people prefer to use their regular text editor and edit the
+conflict directly, as it may be easier to understand what you're doing
+and to control the final result. There are definitely pros and cons to
+each method, and sometimes there's value in using both.
+
+We will not cover using dedicated merge tools here beyond providing some
+pointers to various tools that you could use:
+
+- `vimdiff/gvimdiff <https://linux.die.net/man/1/vimdiff>`__
+- `KDiff3 <http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/>`__
+- `TortoiseMerge <https://tortoisesvn.net/TortoiseMerge.html>`__
+- `Meld <https://meldmerge.org/help/>`__
+- `P4Merge <https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff-tool-p4merge>`__
+- `Beyond Compare <https://www.scootersoftware.com/>`__
+- `IntelliJ <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/resolve-conflicts.html>`__
+- `VSCode <https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/versioncontrol>`__
+
+To configure git to work with these, see ``git mergetool --help`` or
+the official `git-mergetool documentation`_.
+
+.. _git-mergetool documentation: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mergetool
+
+Prerequisite patches
+--------------------
+
+Most conflicts happen because the branch you are backporting to is
+missing some patches compared to the branch you are backporting *from*.
+In the more general case (such as merging two independent branches),
+development could have happened on either branch, or the branches have
+simply diverged -- perhaps your older branch had some other backports
+applied to it that themselves needed conflict resolutions, causing a
+divergence.
+
+It's important to always identify the commit or commits that caused the
+conflict, as otherwise you cannot be confident in the correctness of
+your resolution. As an added bonus, especially if the patch is in an
+area you're not that famliar with, the changelogs of these commits will
+often give you the context to understand the code and potential problems
+or pitfalls with your conflict resolution.
+
+git log
+~~~~~~~
+
+A good first step is to look at ``git log`` for the file that has the
+conflict -- this is usually sufficient when there aren't a lot of
+patches to the file, but may get confusing if the file is big and
+frequently patched. You should run ``git log`` on the range of commits
+between your currently checked-out branch (``HEAD``) and the parent of
+the patch you are picking (``<commit>``), i.e.::
+
+ git log HEAD..<commit>^ -- <path>
+
+Even better, if you want to restrict this output to a single function
+(because that's where the conflict appears), you can use the following
+syntax::
+
+ git log -L:'\<function\>':<path> HEAD..<commit>^
+
+.. note::
+ The ``\<`` and ``\>`` around the function name ensure that the
+ matches are anchored on a word boundary. This is important, as this
+ part is actually a regex and git only follows the first match, so
+ if you use ``-L:thread_stack:kernel/fork.c`` it may only give you
+ results for the function ``try_release_thread_stack_to_cache`` even
+ though there are many other functions in that file containing the
+ string ``thread_stack`` in their names.
+
+Another useful option for ``git log`` is ``-G``, which allows you to
+filter on certain strings appearing in the diffs of the commits you are
+listing::
+
+ git log -G'regex' HEAD..<commit>^ -- <path>
+
+This can also be a handy way to quickly find when something (e.g. a
+function call or a variable) was changed, added, or removed. The search
+string is a regular expression, which means you can potentially search
+for more specific things like assignments to a specific struct member::
+
+ git log -G'\->index\>.*='
+
+git blame
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Another way to find prerequisite commits (albeit only the most recent
+one for a given conflict) is to run ``git blame``. In this case, you
+need to run it against the parent commit of the patch you are
+cherry-picking and the file where the conflict appared, i.e.::
+
+ git blame <commit>^ -- <path>
+
+This command also accepts the ``-L`` argument (for restricting the
+output to a single function), but in this case you specify the filename
+at the end of the command as usual::
+
+ git blame -L:'\<function\>' <commit>^ -- <path>
+
+Navigate to the place where the conflict occurred. The first column of
+the blame output is the commit ID of the patch that added a given line
+of code.
+
+It might be a good idea to ``git show`` these commits and see if they
+look like they might be the source of the conflict. Sometimes there will
+be more than one of these commits, either because multiple commits
+changed different lines of the same conflict area *or* because multiple
+subsequent patches changed the same line (or lines) multiple times. In
+the latter case, you may have to run ``git blame`` again and specify the
+older version of the file to look at in order to dig further back in
+the history of the file.
+
+Prerequisite vs. incidental patches
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Having found the patch that caused the conflict, you need to determine
+whether it is a prerequisite for the patch you are backporting or
+whether it is just incidental and can be skipped. An incidental patch
+would be one that touches the same code as the patch you are
+backporting, but does not change the semantics of the code in any
+material way. For example, a whitespace cleanup patch is completely
+incidental -- likewise, a patch that simply renames a function or a
+variable would be incidental as well. On the other hand, if the function
+being changed does not even exist in your current branch then this would
+not be incidental at all and you need to carefully consider whether the
+patch adding the function should be cherry-picked first.
+
+If you find that there is a necessary prerequisite patch, then you need
+to stop and cherry-pick that instead. If you've already resolved some
+conflicts in a different file and don't want to do it again, you can
+create a temporary copy of that file.
+
+To abort the current cherry-pick, go ahead and run
+``git cherry-pick --abort``, then restart the cherry-picking process
+with the commit ID of the prerequisite patch instead.
+
+Understanding conflict markers
+------------------------------
+
+Combined diffs
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Let's say you've decided against picking (or reverting) additional
+patches and you just want to resolve the conflict. Git will have
+inserted conflict markers into your file. Out of the box, this will look
+something like::
+
+ <<<<<<< HEAD
+ this is what's in your current tree before cherry-picking
+ =======
+ this is what the patch wants it to be after cherry-picking
+ >>>>>>> <commit>... title
+
+This is what you would see if you opened the file in your editor.
+However, if you were to run run ``git diff`` without any arguments, the
+output would look something like this::
+
+ $ git diff
+ [...]
+ ++<<<<<<<< HEAD
+ +this is what's in your current tree before cherry-picking
+ ++========
+ + this is what the patch wants it to be after cherry-picking
+ ++>>>>>>>> <commit>... title
+
+When you are resolving a conflict, the behavior of ``git diff`` differs
+from its normal behavior. Notice the two columns of diff markers
+instead of the usual one; this is a so-called "`combined diff`_", here
+showing the 3-way diff (or diff-of-diffs) between
+
+#. the current branch (before cherry-picking) and the current working
+ directory, and
+#. the current branch (before cherry-picking) and the file as it looks
+ after the original patch has been applied.
+
+.. _combined diff: https://git-scm.com/docs/diff-format#_combined_diff_format
+
+
+Better diffs
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+3-way combined diffs include all the other changes that happened to the
+file between your current branch and the branch you are cherry-picking
+from. While this is useful for spotting other changes that you need to
+take into account, this also makes the output of ``git diff`` somewhat
+intimidating and difficult to read. You may instead prefer to run
+``git diff HEAD`` (or ``git diff --ours``) which shows only the diff
+between the current branch before cherry-picking and the current working
+directory. It looks like this::
+
+ $ git diff HEAD
+ [...]
+ +<<<<<<<< HEAD
+ this is what's in your current tree before cherry-picking
+ +========
+ +this is what the patch wants it to be after cherry-picking
+ +>>>>>>>> <commit>... title
+
+As you can see, this reads just like any other diff and makes it clear
+which lines are in the current branch and which lines are being added
+because they are part of the merge conflict or the patch being
+cherry-picked.
+
+Merge styles and diff3
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The default conflict marker style shown above is known as the ``merge``
+style. There is also another style available, known as the ``diff3``
+style, which looks like this::
+
+ <<<<<<< HEAD
+ this is what is in your current tree before cherry-picking
+ ||||||| parent of <commit> (title)
+ this is what the patch expected to find there
+ =======
+ this is what the patch wants it to be after being applied
+ >>>>>>> <commit> (title)
+
+As you can see, this has 3 parts instead of 2, and includes what git
+expected to find there but didn't. Some people vastly prefer this style
+as it makes it much clearer what the patch actually changed; i.e., it
+allows you to compare the before-and-after versions of the file for the
+commit you are cherry-picking. This allows you to make better decisions
+about how to resolve the conflict.
+
+To change conflict marker styles, you can use the following command::
+
+ git config merge.conflictStyle diff3
+
+There is a third option, ``zdiff3``, introduced in `Git 2.35`_,
+which has the same 3 sections as ``diff3``, but where common lines have
+been trimmed off, making the conflict area smaller in some cases.
+
+.. _Git 2.35: https://github.blog/2022-01-24-highlights-from-git-2-35/
+
+Iterating on conflict resolutions
+---------------------------------
+
+The first step in any conflict resolution process is to understand the
+patch you are backporting. For the Linux kernel this is especially
+important, since an incorrect change can lead to the whole system
+crashing -- or worse, an undetected security vulnerability.
+
+Understanding the patch can be easy or difficult depending on the patch
+itself, the changelog, and your familiarity with the code being changed.
+However, a good question for every change (or every hunk of the patch)
+might be: "Why is this hunk in the patch?" The answers to these
+questions will inform your conflict resolution.
+
+Resolution process
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to just remove all but the first
+part of the conflict, leaving the file essentially unchanged, and apply
+the changes by hand. Perhaps the patch is changing a function call
+argument from ``0`` to ``1`` while a conflicting change added an
+entirely new (and insignificant) parameter to the end of the parameter
+list; in that case, it's easy enough to change the argument from ``0``
+to ``1`` by hand and leave the rest of the arguments alone. This
+technique of manually applying changes is mostly useful if the conflict
+pulled in a lot of unrelated context that you don't really need to care
+about.
+
+For particularly nasty conflicts with many conflict markers, you can use
+``git add`` or ``git add -i`` to selectively stage your resolutions to
+get them out of the way; this also lets you use ``git diff HEAD`` to
+always see what remains to be resolved or ``git diff --cached`` to see
+what your patch looks like so far.
+
+Function arguments
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Pay attention to changing function arguments! It's easy to gloss over
+details and think that two lines are the same but actually they differ
+in some small detail like which variable was passed as an argument
+(especially if the two variables are both a single character that look
+the same, like i and j).
+
+Error handling
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If you cherry-pick a patch that includes a ``goto`` statement (typically
+for error handling), it is absolutely imperative to double check that
+the target label is still correct in the branch you are backporting to.
+Error handling is typically located at the bottom of the function, so it
+may not be part of the conflict even though could have been changed by
+other patches.
+
+A good way to ensure that you review the error paths is to always use
+``git diff -W`` and ``git show -W`` (AKA ``--function-context``) when
+inspecting your changes. For C code, this will show you the whole
+function that's being changed in a patch. One of the things that often
+go wrong during backports is that something else in the function changed
+on either of the branches that you're backporting from or to. By
+including the whole function in the diff you get more context and can
+more easily spot problems that might otherwise go unnoticed.
+
+Dealing with file renames
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+One of the most annoying things that can happen while backporting a
+patch is discovering that one of the files being patched has been
+renamed, as that typically means git won't even put in conflict markers,
+but will just throw up its hands and say (paraphrased): "Unmerged path!
+You do the work..."
+
+There are generally a few ways to deal with this. If the patch to the
+renamed file is small, like a one-line change, the easiest thing is to
+just go ahead and apply the change by hand and be done with it. On the
+other hand, if the change is big or complicated, you definitely don't
+want to do it by hand.
+
+Sometimes the right thing to do will be to also backport the patch that
+did the rename, but that's definitely not the most common case. Instead,
+what you can do is to temporarily rename the file in the branch you're
+backporting to (using ``git mv`` and committing the result), restart the
+attempt to cherry-pick the patch, rename the file back (``git mv`` and
+committing again), and finally squash the result using ``git rebase -i``
+(see the `rebase tutorial`_) so it appears as a single commit when you
+are done.
+
+.. _rebase tutorial: https://medium.com/@slamflipstrom/a-beginners-guide-to-squashing-commits-wi…
+
+Verifying the result
+====================
+
+colordiff
+---------
+
+Having committed a conflict-free new patch, you can now compare your
+patch to the original patch. It is highly recommended that you use a
+tool such as `colordiff`_ that can show two files side by side and color
+them according to the changes between them::
+
+ colordiff -yw -W 200 <(git diff -W <upstream commit>^-) <(git diff -W HEAD^-) | less -SR
+
+.. _colordiff: https://www.colordiff.org/
+
+Here, ``-y`` means to do a side-by-side comparison; ``-w`` ignores
+whitespace, and ``-W 200`` sets the width of the output (as otherwise it
+will use 130 by default, which is often a bit too little).
+
+The ``rev^-`` syntax is a handy shorthand for ``rev^..rev``, essentially
+giving you just the diff for that single commit; also see
+the official `git rev-parse documentation`_.
+
+.. _git rev-parse documentation: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rev-parse#_other_rev_parent_shorthand_notations
+
+Again, note the inclusion of ``-W`` for ``git diff``; this ensures that
+you will see the full function for any function that has changed.
+
+One incredibly important thing that colordiff does is to highlight lines
+that are different. For example, if an error-handling ``goto`` has
+changed labels between the original and backported patch, colordiff will
+show these side-by-side but highlighted in a different color. Thus, it
+is easy to see that the two ``goto`` statements are jumping to different
+labels. Likewise, lines that were not modified by either patch but
+differ in the context will also be highlighted and thus stand out during
+a manual inspection.
+
+Of course, this is just a visual inspection; the real test is building
+and running the patched kernel (or program).
+
+Build testing
+-------------
+
+We won't cover runtime testing here, but it can be a good idea to build
+just the files touched by the patch as a quick sanity check. For the
+Linux kernel you can build single files like this, assuming you have the
+``.config`` and build environment set up correctly::
+
+ make path/to/file.o
+
+Note that this won't discover linker errors, so you should still do a
+full build after verifying that the single file compiles. By compiling
+the single file first you can avoid having to wait for a full build *in
+case* there are compiler errors in any of the files you've changed.
+
+Runtime testing
+---------------
+
+Even a successful build or boot test is not necessarily enough to rule
+out a missing dependency somewhere. Even though the chances are small,
+there could be code changes where two independent changes to the same
+file result in no conflicts, no compile-time errors, and runtime errors
+only in exceptional cases.
+
+One concrete example of this was a pair of patches to the system call
+entry code where the first patch saved/restored a register and a later
+patch made use of the same register somewhere in the middle of this
+sequence. Since there was no overlap between the changes, one could
+cherry-pick the second patch, have no conflicts, and believe that
+everything was fine, when in fact the code was now scribbling over an
+unsaved register.
+
+Although the vast majority of errors will be caught during compilation
+or by superficially exercising the code, the only way to *really* verify
+a backport is to review the final patch with the same level of scrutiny
+as you would (or should) give to any other patch. Having unit tests and
+regression tests or other types of automatic testing can help increase
+the confidence in the correctness of a backport.
+
+Examples
+========
+
+The above shows roughly the idealized process of backporting a patch.
+For a more concrete example, see this video tutorial where two patches
+are backported from mainline to stable:
+`Backporting Linux Kernel Patches`_.
+
+.. _Backporting Linux Kernel Patches: https://youtu.be/sBR7R1V2FeA
diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst
index b501cd977053f..13e522752f880 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ lack of a better place.
:maxdepth: 1
applying-patches
+ backporting
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
--
2.25.1
Both the JEDEC and ONFI specification say that read cache sequential
support is an optional command. This means that we not only need to
check whether the individual controller supports the command, we also
need to check the parameter pages for both ONFI and JEDEC NAND flashes
before enabling sequential cache reads.
This fixes support for NAND flashes which don't support enabling cache
reads, i.e. Samsung K9F4G08U0F or Toshiba TC58NVG0S3HTA00.
Sequential cache reads are now only available for ONFI and JEDEC
devices, if individual vendors implement this, it needs to be enabled
per vendor.
Tested on i.MX6Q with a Samsung NAND flash chip that doesn't support
sequential reads.
Fixes: 003fe4b9545b ("mtd: rawnand: Support for sequential cache reads")
Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rouven Czerwinski <r.czerwinski(a)pengutronix.de>
---
v2:
- change title as suggested by Miquel
- adjust controller sentence from implement to support
- fix missing true assignement for flashes
- add CC stable instead of empty line
- add documentation comment for new supports_read_cache bool inside
nand parameter struct
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c | 3 +++
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_jedec.c | 3 +++
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_onfi.c | 3 +++
include/linux/mtd/jedec.h | 3 +++
include/linux/mtd/onfi.h | 1 +
include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h | 2 ++
6 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
index d4b55155aeae..1fcac403cee6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c
@@ -5110,6 +5110,9 @@ static void rawnand_check_cont_read_support(struct nand_chip *chip)
{
struct mtd_info *mtd = nand_to_mtd(chip);
+ if (!chip->parameters.supports_read_cache)
+ return;
+
if (chip->read_retries)
return;
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_jedec.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_jedec.c
index 836757717660..b3cc8f360529 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_jedec.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_jedec.c
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ int nand_jedec_detect(struct nand_chip *chip)
goto free_jedec_param_page;
}
+ if (p->opt_cmd[0] & JEDEC_OPT_CMD_READ_CACHE)
+ chip->parameters.supports_read_cache = true;
+
memorg->pagesize = le32_to_cpu(p->byte_per_page);
mtd->writesize = memorg->pagesize;
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_onfi.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_onfi.c
index f15ef90aec8c..861975e44b55 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_onfi.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_onfi.c
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ int nand_onfi_detect(struct nand_chip *chip)
ONFI_FEATURE_ADDR_TIMING_MODE, 1);
}
+ if (le16_to_cpu(p->opt_cmd) & ONFI_OPT_CMD_READ_CACHE)
+ chip->parameters.supports_read_cache = true;
+
onfi = kzalloc(sizeof(*onfi), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!onfi) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h b/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h
index 0b6b59f7cfbd..56047a4e54c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ struct jedec_ecc_info {
/* JEDEC features */
#define JEDEC_FEATURE_16_BIT_BUS (1 << 0)
+/* JEDEC Optional Commands */
+#define JEDEC_OPT_CMD_READ_CACHE BIT(1)
+
struct nand_jedec_params {
/* rev info and features block */
/* 'J' 'E' 'S' 'D' */
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/onfi.h b/include/linux/mtd/onfi.h
index a7376f9beddf..55ab2e4d62f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/onfi.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/onfi.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#define ONFI_SUBFEATURE_PARAM_LEN 4
/* ONFI optional commands SET/GET FEATURES supported? */
+#define ONFI_OPT_CMD_READ_CACHE BIT(1)
#define ONFI_OPT_CMD_SET_GET_FEATURES BIT(2)
struct nand_onfi_params {
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h b/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
index 90a141ba2a5a..c29ace15a053 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ struct gpio_desc;
* struct nand_parameters - NAND generic parameters from the parameter page
* @model: Model name
* @supports_set_get_features: The NAND chip supports setting/getting features
+ * @supports_read_cache: The NAND chip supports read cache operations
* @set_feature_list: Bitmap of features that can be set
* @get_feature_list: Bitmap of features that can be get
* @onfi: ONFI specific parameters
@@ -233,6 +234,7 @@ struct nand_parameters {
/* Generic parameters */
const char *model;
bool supports_set_get_features;
+ bool supports_read_cache;
DECLARE_BITMAP(set_feature_list, ONFI_FEATURE_NUMBER);
DECLARE_BITMAP(get_feature_list, ONFI_FEATURE_NUMBER);
base-commit: 42dc814987c1feb6410904e58cfd4c36c4146150
--
2.42.0
Commit e2ae38cf3d91 ("vhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb
entries") Forbade vhost iotlb msg with null size to prevent entries
with size = start = 0 and last = ULONG_MAX to end up in the iotlb.
Then commit 95932ab2ea07 ("vhost: allow batching hint without size")
only applied the check for VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE and VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE
message types to fix a regression observed with batching hit.
Still, the introduction of that check introduced a regression for
some users attempting to invalidate the whole ULONG_MAX range by
setting the size to 0. This is the case with qemu/smmuv3/vhost
integration which does not work anymore. It Looks safe to partially
revert the original commit and allow VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE messages
with null size. vhost_iotlb_del_range() will compute a correct end
iova. Same for vhost_vdpa_iotlb_unmap().
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger(a)redhat.com>
Fixes: e2ae38cf3d91 ("vhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb entries")
Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org # v5.17+
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang(a)redhat.com>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index c71d573f1c94..e0c181ad17e3 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1458,9 +1458,7 @@ ssize_t vhost_chr_write_iter(struct vhost_dev *dev,
goto done;
}
- if ((msg.type == VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE ||
- msg.type == VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE) &&
- msg.size == 0) {
+ if (msg.type == VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE && msg.size == 0) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto done;
}
--
2.41.0
During SMBus block data read process, we have seen high interrupt rate
because of TX_EMPTY irq status while waiting for block length byte (the
first data byte after the address phase). The interrupt handler does not
do anything because the internal state is kept as STATUS_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS.
Hence, we should disable TX_EMPTY irq until I2C DW receives first data
byte from I2C device, then re-enable it.
It takes 0.789 ms for host to receive data length from slave.
Without the patch, i2c_dw_isr is called 99 times by TX_EMPTY interrupt.
And it is none after applying the patch.
Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuong Tran <chuong(a)os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Tam Nguyen <tamnguyenchi(a)os.amperecomputing.com>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c
index 55ea91a63382..2152b1f9b27c 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c
@@ -462,6 +462,13 @@ i2c_dw_xfer_msg(struct dw_i2c_dev *dev)
if (buf_len > 0 || flags & I2C_M_RECV_LEN) {
/* more bytes to be written */
dev->status |= STATUS_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS;
+ /*
+ * In I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA case, there is no data
+ * to send before receiving data length from slave.
+ * Disable TX_EMPTY while waiting for data length byte
+ */
+ if (flags & I2C_M_RECV_LEN)
+ intr_mask &= ~DW_IC_INTR_TX_EMPTY;
break;
} else
dev->status &= ~STATUS_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS;
@@ -485,6 +492,7 @@ i2c_dw_recv_len(struct dw_i2c_dev *dev, u8 len)
{
struct i2c_msg *msgs = dev->msgs;
u32 flags = msgs[dev->msg_read_idx].flags;
+ u32 intr_mask;
/*
* Adjust the buffer length and mask the flag
@@ -495,6 +503,11 @@ i2c_dw_recv_len(struct dw_i2c_dev *dev, u8 len)
msgs[dev->msg_read_idx].len = len;
msgs[dev->msg_read_idx].flags &= ~I2C_M_RECV_LEN;
+ /* Re-enable TX_EMPTY interrupt. */
+ regmap_read(dev->map, DW_IC_INTR_MASK, &intr_mask);
+ intr_mask |= DW_IC_INTR_TX_EMPTY;
+ regmap_write(dev->map, DW_IC_INTR_MASK, intr_mask);
+
return len;
}
--
2.25.1
In powerpc pseries system, below behaviour is observed while
enabling tracing on hcall:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# cat events/powerpc/hcall_exit/enable
0
# echo 1 > events/powerpc/hcall_exit/enable
# ls
-bash: fork: Bad address
Above is from power9 lpar with latest kernel. Past this, softlockup
is observed. Initially while attempting via perf_event_open to
use "PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT", kernel panic was observed.
perf config used:
================
memset(&pe[1],0,sizeof(struct perf_event_attr));
pe[1].type=PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT;
pe[1].size=96;
pe[1].config=0x26ULL; /* 38 raw_syscalls/sys_exit */
pe[1].sample_type=0; /* 0 */
pe[1].read_format=PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING|PERF_FORMAT_ID|PERF_FORMAT_GROUP|0x10ULL; /* 1f */
pe[1].inherit=1;
pe[1].precise_ip=0; /* arbitrary skid */
pe[1].wakeup_events=0;
pe[1].bp_type=HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY;
pe[1].config1=0x1ULL;
Kernel panic logs:
==================
Kernel attempted to read user page (8) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000008
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000004c2814
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in: nfnetlink bonding tls rfkill sunrpc dm_service_time dm_multipath pseries_rng xts vmx_crypto xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft crc64 sg ibmvfc scsi_transport_fc ibmveth dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
CPU: 0 PID: 1431 Comm: login Not tainted 6.4.0+ #1
Hardware name: IBM,8375-42A POWER9 (raw) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW950.30 (VL950_892) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP [c0000000004c2814] page_remove_rmap+0x44/0x320
LR [c00000000049c2a4] wp_page_copy+0x384/0xec0
Call Trace:
[c0000000098c7ad0] [c00000001416e400] 0xc00000001416e400 (unreliable)
[c0000000098c7b20] [c00000000049c2a4] wp_page_copy+0x384/0xec0
[c0000000098c7bf0] [c0000000004a4f64] __handle_mm_fault+0x9d4/0xfb0
[c0000000098c7cf0] [c0000000004a5630] handle_mm_fault+0xf0/0x350
[c0000000098c7d40] [c000000000094e8c] ___do_page_fault+0x48c/0xc90
[c0000000098c7df0] [c0000000000958a0] hash__do_page_fault+0x30/0x70
[c0000000098c7e20] [c00000000009e244] do_hash_fault+0x1a4/0x330
[c0000000098c7e50] [c000000000008918] data_access_common_virt+0x198/0x1f0
--- interrupt: 300 at 0x7fffae971abc
git bisect tracked this down to below commit:
'commit baa49d81a94b ("powerpc/pseries: hvcall stack frame overhead")'
This commit changed STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD (112 ) to
STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE (32 ) since 32 bytes is the minimum size
for ELFv2 stack. With the latest kernel, when running on ELFv2,
STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE is used to allocate stack size.
During plpar_hcall_trace, first call is made to HCALL_INST_PRECALL
which saves the registers and allocates new stack frame. In the
plpar_hcall_trace code, STK_PARAM is accessed at two places.
1. To save r4: std r4,STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
2. To access r4 back: ld r12,STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
HCALL_INST_PRECALL precall allocates a new stack frame. So all
the stack parameter access after the precall, needs to be accessed
with +STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE. So the store instruction should be:
std r4,STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE+STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
If the "std" is not updated with STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE, we will
end up with overwriting stack contents and cause corruption.
But instead of updating 'std', we can instead remove it since
HCALL_INST_PRECALL already saves it to the correct location.
similarly load instruction should be:
ld r12,STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE+STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
Fix the load instruction to correctly access the stack parameter
with +STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE and remove the store of r4 since the
precall saves it correctly.
Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org
Fixes: baa49d81a94b ("powerpc/pseries: hvcall stack frame overhead")
Co-developed-by: Naveen N Rao <naveen(a)kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao <naveen(a)kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
index bae45b358a09..2addf2ea03f0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ _GLOBAL_TOC(plpar_hcall)
plpar_hcall_trace:
HCALL_INST_PRECALL(R5)
- std r4,STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
mr r0,r4
mr r4,r5
@@ -196,7 +195,7 @@ plpar_hcall_trace:
HVSC
- ld r12,STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
+ ld r12,STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE+STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
std r4,0(r12)
std r5,8(r12)
std r6,16(r12)
@@ -296,7 +295,6 @@ _GLOBAL_TOC(plpar_hcall9)
plpar_hcall9_trace:
HCALL_INST_PRECALL(R5)
- std r4,STK_PARAM(R4)(r1)
mr r0,r4
mr r4,r5
--
2.39.3
Hello Felix.
On středa 26. července 2023 11:17:02 CEST Felix Fietkau wrote:
> The IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_EXT_NSS_BW value already indicates support for half-NSS
> 160 MHz support, so it is wrong to also advertise full 160 MHz support.
>
> Fixes: c2f73eacee3b ("wifi: mt76: mt7915: add back 160MHz channel width support for MT7915")
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd(a)nbd.name>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c
> index ee976657bfc3..78552f10b377 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c
> @@ -414,7 +414,6 @@ mt7915_init_wiphy(struct mt7915_phy *phy)
> if (!dev->dbdc_support)
> vht_cap->cap |=
> IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SHORT_GI_160 |
> - IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_SUPP_CHAN_WIDTH_160MHZ |
> FIELD_PREP(IEEE80211_VHT_CAP_EXT_NSS_BW_MASK, 1);
> } else {
> vht_cap->cap |=
>
For some reason this got backported into the stable kernel:
```
$ git log --oneline v6.5.2..v6.5.4 -- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/
c43017fbebcc3 wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix power-limits while chan_switch
edb1afe042c74 wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix tlv length of mt7915_mcu_get_chan_mib_info
9ec0dec0baea3 wifi: mt76: mt7915: remove VHT160 capability on MT7915
0e61f73e6ebc0 wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix capabilities in non-AP mode
6bce28ce28390 wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix command timeout in AP stop period
7af917d4864c6 wifi: mt76: mt7915: rework tx bytes counting when WED is active
feae00c6468ce wifi: mt76: mt7915: rework tx packets counting when WED is active
70bbcc4ad6544 wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix background radar event being blocked
```
and this broke my mt7915-based AP.
However, if I remove `[VT160]` capability from the hostapd config, things go back to normal. It does seem that 160 MHz still works even.
Is this expected?
Please check.
Thanks.
--
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)