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@mickpf mickpf commented Mar 5, 2018

Hello,

is your kernel compatible/usable with UP Squared also?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

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transkatgirl commented Mar 11, 2018

Well, any x86 OS which supports EFI will work on the UP Board or UP Squared, but only the Ubilinux image or custom Ubuntu kernels provided by the UP Wiki will be able to support specialized peripherals made for UP Boards, like the WiFi attachment, allow interfacing with GPIO, etc... So, although you can use a generic Linux kernel on an UP Board or UP Squared, you won't be able to use all of the board's features. Note that the 5v, 3.3v, and ground pins will still work, no matter what OS your board is running.

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After looking at your commits, although the kernel will probably work with most, if not all, UP Board attachments, they aren't going to merge it with the main kernel. The changes are likely to also work with the UP Squared, but due to differences in hardware, it is likely that not all functionality will work properly. I don't have an UP Squared (I have the normal UP Board), so I can't test this myself, but you could try it out and see.

thehajime referenced this pull request in libos-nuse/lkl-linux Mar 19, 2018
When a tail call fails, it is documented that the tail call should
continue execution at the following instruction.  An example tail call
sequence is:

  12: (85) call bpf_tail_call#12
  13: (b7) r0 = 0
  14: (95) exit

The ARM assembler for the tail call in this case ends up branching to
instruction 14 instead of instruction 13, resulting in the BPF filter
returning a non-zero value:

  178:	ldr	r8, [sp, torvalds#588]	; insn 12
  17c:	ldr	r6, [r8, r6]
  180:	ldr	r8, [sp, torvalds#580]
  184:	cmp	r8, r6
  188:	bcs	0x1e8
  18c:	ldr	r6, [sp, lkl#524]
  190:	ldr	r7, [sp, lkl#528]
  194:	cmp	r7, #0
  198:	cmpeq	r6, lkl#32
  19c:	bhi	0x1e8
  1a0:	adds	r6, r6, #1
  1a4:	adc	r7, r7, #0
  1a8:	str	r6, [sp, lkl#524]
  1ac:	str	r7, [sp, lkl#528]
  1b0:	mov	r6, lkl#104
  1b4:	ldr	r8, [sp, torvalds#588]
  1b8:	add	r6, r8, r6
  1bc:	ldr	r8, [sp, torvalds#580]
  1c0:	lsl	r7, r8, #2
  1c4:	ldr	r6, [r6, r7]
  1c8:	cmp	r6, #0
  1cc:	beq	0x1e8
  1d0:	mov	r8, lkl#32
  1d4:	ldr	r6, [r6, r8]
  1d8:	add	r6, r6, lkl#44
  1dc:	bx	r6
  1e0:	mov	r0, #0		; insn 13
  1e4:	mov	r1, #0
  1e8:	add	sp, sp, torvalds#596	; insn 14
  1ec:	pop	{r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, sl, pc}

For other sequences, the tail call could end up branching midway through
the following BPF instructions, or maybe off the end of the function,
leading to unknown behaviours.

Fixes: 39c13c2 ("arm: eBPF JIT compiler")
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
plbossart added a commit to plbossart/sound that referenced this pull request Jan 11, 2019
…ntel-audio-20190111

Merge/backport v4.20 intel audio 20190111
fengguang pushed a commit to 0day-ci/linux that referenced this pull request Apr 5, 2021
Fix the following checkpatch errors:

  ERROR: space prohibited before that ',' (ctx:WxW)
  torvalds#280: FILE: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c:280:
  +	i2c_clr_bit(dev->virtbase + I2C_CR , I2C_CR_PE);
  	                                   ^
  ERROR: space prohibited before that ',' (ctx:WxW)
  torvalds#528: FILE: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c:528:
  +	i2c_set_bit(dev->virtbase + I2C_CR , I2C_CR_PE);
 	                                   ^

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Zihao Tang <tangzihao1@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
fengguang pushed a commit to 0day-ci/linux that referenced this pull request Apr 16, 2021
Fix the following checkpatch errors:

  ERROR: space prohibited before that ',' (ctx:WxW)
  torvalds#280: FILE: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c:280:
  +	i2c_clr_bit(dev->virtbase + I2C_CR , I2C_CR_PE);
  	                                   ^
  ERROR: space prohibited before that ',' (ctx:WxW)
  torvalds#528: FILE: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c:528:
  +	i2c_set_bit(dev->virtbase + I2C_CR , I2C_CR_PE);
 	                                   ^

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Zihao Tang <tangzihao1@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
ojeda added a commit to ojeda/linux that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2021
intel-lab-lkp pushed a commit to intel-lab-lkp/linux that referenced this pull request May 10, 2023
After blamed commit, nexthop_fib6_nh_bh() and nexthop_fib6_nh()
are the same.

Delete nexthop_fib6_nh_bh(), and convert /proc/net/ipv6_route
to standard rcu to avoid this splat:

[ 5723.180080] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 5723.180083] -----------------------------
[ 5723.180084] include/net/nexthop.h:516 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 5723.180086]
other info that might help us debug this:

[ 5723.180087]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 5723.180089] 2 locks held by cat/55856:
[ 5723.180091] #0: ffff9440a582afa8 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:188)
[ 5723.180100] #1: ffffffffaac07040 (rcu_read_lock_bh){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire (include/linux/rcupdate.h:326)
[ 5723.180109]
stack backtrace:
[ 5723.180111] CPU: 14 PID: 55856 Comm: cat Tainted: G S        I        6.3.0-dbx-DEV torvalds#528
[ 5723.180115] Call Trace:
[ 5723.180117]  <TASK>
[ 5723.180119] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107)
[ 5723.180124] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
[ 5723.180126] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (include/linux/context_tracking.h:122)
[ 5723.180132] ipv6_route_seq_show (include/net/nexthop.h:?)
[ 5723.180135] ? ipv6_route_seq_next (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2605)
[ 5723.180140] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:272)
[ 5723.180145] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:163)
[ 5723.180151] proc_reg_read (fs/proc/inode.c:316 fs/proc/inode.c:328)
[ 5723.180155] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468)
[ 5723.180160] ? up_read (kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1617)
[ 5723.180164] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:613)
[ 5723.180168] __x64_sys_read (fs/read_write.c:621)
[ 5723.180170] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
[ 5723.180174] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
[ 5723.180177] RIP: 0033:0x7fa455677d2a

Fixes: 09eed11 ("neighbour: switch to standard rcu, instead of rcu_bh")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
intel-lab-lkp pushed a commit to intel-lab-lkp/linux that referenced this pull request May 12, 2023
After blamed commit, nexthop_fib6_nh_bh() and nexthop_fib6_nh()
are the same.

Delete nexthop_fib6_nh_bh(), and convert /proc/net/ipv6_route
to standard rcu to avoid this splat:

[ 5723.180080] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 5723.180083] -----------------------------
[ 5723.180084] include/net/nexthop.h:516 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 5723.180086]
other info that might help us debug this:

[ 5723.180087]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 5723.180089] 2 locks held by cat/55856:
[ 5723.180091] #0: ffff9440a582afa8 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:188)
[ 5723.180100] #1: ffffffffaac07040 (rcu_read_lock_bh){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire (include/linux/rcupdate.h:326)
[ 5723.180109]
stack backtrace:
[ 5723.180111] CPU: 14 PID: 55856 Comm: cat Tainted: G S        I        6.3.0-dbx-DEV torvalds#528
[ 5723.180115] Call Trace:
[ 5723.180117]  <TASK>
[ 5723.180119] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107)
[ 5723.180124] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
[ 5723.180126] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (include/linux/context_tracking.h:122)
[ 5723.180132] ipv6_route_seq_show (include/net/nexthop.h:?)
[ 5723.180135] ? ipv6_route_seq_next (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2605)
[ 5723.180140] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:272)
[ 5723.180145] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:163)
[ 5723.180151] proc_reg_read (fs/proc/inode.c:316 fs/proc/inode.c:328)
[ 5723.180155] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468)
[ 5723.180160] ? up_read (kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1617)
[ 5723.180164] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:613)
[ 5723.180168] __x64_sys_read (fs/read_write.c:621)
[ 5723.180170] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
[ 5723.180174] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
[ 5723.180177] RIP: 0033:0x7fa455677d2a

Fixes: 09eed11 ("neighbour: switch to standard rcu, instead of rcu_bh")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510154646.370659-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
mj22226 pushed a commit to mj22226/linux that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2023
commit ef1148d upstream.

After blamed commit, nexthop_fib6_nh_bh() and nexthop_fib6_nh()
are the same.

Delete nexthop_fib6_nh_bh(), and convert /proc/net/ipv6_route
to standard rcu to avoid this splat:

[ 5723.180080] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 5723.180083] -----------------------------
[ 5723.180084] include/net/nexthop.h:516 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 5723.180086]
other info that might help us debug this:

[ 5723.180087]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 5723.180089] 2 locks held by cat/55856:
[ 5723.180091] #0: ffff9440a582afa8 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:188)
[ 5723.180100] #1: ffffffffaac07040 (rcu_read_lock_bh){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire (include/linux/rcupdate.h:326)
[ 5723.180109]
stack backtrace:
[ 5723.180111] CPU: 14 PID: 55856 Comm: cat Tainted: G S        I        6.3.0-dbx-DEV torvalds#528
[ 5723.180115] Call Trace:
[ 5723.180117]  <TASK>
[ 5723.180119] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107)
[ 5723.180124] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
[ 5723.180126] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (include/linux/context_tracking.h:122)
[ 5723.180132] ipv6_route_seq_show (include/net/nexthop.h:?)
[ 5723.180135] ? ipv6_route_seq_next (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2605)
[ 5723.180140] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:272)
[ 5723.180145] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:163)
[ 5723.180151] proc_reg_read (fs/proc/inode.c:316 fs/proc/inode.c:328)
[ 5723.180155] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468)
[ 5723.180160] ? up_read (kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1617)
[ 5723.180164] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:613)
[ 5723.180168] __x64_sys_read (fs/read_write.c:621)
[ 5723.180170] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
[ 5723.180174] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
[ 5723.180177] RIP: 0033:0x7fa455677d2a

Fixes: 09eed11 ("neighbour: switch to standard rcu, instead of rcu_bh")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510154646.370659-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
1054009064 pushed a commit to 1054009064/linux that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2023
commit ef1148d upstream.

After blamed commit, nexthop_fib6_nh_bh() and nexthop_fib6_nh()
are the same.

Delete nexthop_fib6_nh_bh(), and convert /proc/net/ipv6_route
to standard rcu to avoid this splat:

[ 5723.180080] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 5723.180083] -----------------------------
[ 5723.180084] include/net/nexthop.h:516 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 5723.180086]
other info that might help us debug this:

[ 5723.180087]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 5723.180089] 2 locks held by cat/55856:
[ 5723.180091] #0: ffff9440a582afa8 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:188)
[ 5723.180100] #1: ffffffffaac07040 (rcu_read_lock_bh){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire (include/linux/rcupdate.h:326)
[ 5723.180109]
stack backtrace:
[ 5723.180111] CPU: 14 PID: 55856 Comm: cat Tainted: G S        I        6.3.0-dbx-DEV torvalds#528
[ 5723.180115] Call Trace:
[ 5723.180117]  <TASK>
[ 5723.180119] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107)
[ 5723.180124] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
[ 5723.180126] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (include/linux/context_tracking.h:122)
[ 5723.180132] ipv6_route_seq_show (include/net/nexthop.h:?)
[ 5723.180135] ? ipv6_route_seq_next (net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:2605)
[ 5723.180140] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:272)
[ 5723.180145] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:163)
[ 5723.180151] proc_reg_read (fs/proc/inode.c:316 fs/proc/inode.c:328)
[ 5723.180155] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468)
[ 5723.180160] ? up_read (kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1617)
[ 5723.180164] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:613)
[ 5723.180168] __x64_sys_read (fs/read_write.c:621)
[ 5723.180170] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
[ 5723.180174] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
[ 5723.180177] RIP: 0033:0x7fa455677d2a

Fixes: 09eed11 ("neighbour: switch to standard rcu, instead of rcu_bh")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510154646.370659-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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