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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two documentation updates, plus a debugging annotation fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel()
x86/irq, trace: Add __irq_entry annotation to x86's platform IRQ handlers
Documentation, x86, resctrl: Recommend locking for resctrlfs
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Pick up simple singular commits from their topic branches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash
it somewhere that the main kernel image can find.
The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a)
generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use
efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode.
For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot
loader or kexec. This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new
kernel.
Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"There's a number of fixes:
- a round of fixes for CPUID-less legacy CPUs
- a number of microcode loader fixes
- i8042 detection robustization fixes
- stack dump/unwinder fixes
- x86 SoC platform driver fixes
- a GCC 7 warning fix
- virtualization related fixes"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
Revert "x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address"
x86/paravirt: Mark unused patch_default label
x86/microcode/AMD: Reload proper initrd start address
x86/platform/intel/quark: Add printf attribute to imr_self_test_result()
x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch MPU3050 driver to IIO
x86/alternatives: Do not use sync_core() to serialize I$
x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id
x86/hyperv: Handle unknown NMIs on one CPU when unknown_nmi_panic
x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self
x86/microcode/intel: Replace sync_core() with native_cpuid()
Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"
x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels
x86/cpu: Probe CPUID leaf 6 even when cpuid_level == 6
x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c
x86/unwind: Dump stack data on warnings
x86/unwind: Adjust last frame check for aligned function stacks
x86/init: Fix a couple of comment typos
x86/init: Remove i8042_detect() from platform ops
Input: i8042 - Trust firmware a bit more when probing on X86
x86/init: Add i8042 state to the platform data
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache allocation interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This provides support for Intel's Cache Allocation Technology, a cache
partitioning mechanism.
The interface is odd, but the hardware interface of that CAT stuff is
odd as well.
We tried hard to come up with an abstraction, but that only allows
rather simple partitioning, but no way of sharing and dealing with the
per package nature of this mechanism.
In the end we decided to expose the allocation bitmaps directly so all
combinations of the hardware can be utilized.
There are two ways of associating a cache partition:
- Task
A task can be added to a resource group. It uses the cache
partition associated to the group.
- CPU
All tasks which are not member of a resource group use the group to
which the CPU they are running on is associated with.
That allows for simple CPU based partitioning schemes.
The main expected user sare:
- Virtualization so a VM can only trash only the associated part of
the cash w/o disturbing others
- Real-Time systems to seperate RT and general workloads.
- Latency sensitive enterprise workloads
- In theory this also can be used to protect against cache side
channel attacks"
[ Intel RDT is "Resource Director Technology". The interface really is
rather odd and very specific, which delayed this pull request while I
was thinking about it. The pull request itself came in early during
the merge window, I just delayed it until things had calmed down and I
had more time.
But people tell me they'll use this, and the good news is that it is
_so_ specific that it's rather independent of anything else, and no
user is going to depend on the interface since it's pretty rare. So if
push comes to shove, we can just remove the interface and nothing will
break ]
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Implement show_options() for resctrlfs
x86/intel_rdt: Call intel_rdt_sched_in() with preemption disabled
x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount
x86/intel_rdt: Fix setting of closid when adding CPUs to a group
x86/intel_rdt: Update percpu closid immeditately on CPUs affected by changee
x86/intel_rdt: Reset per cpu closids on unmount
x86/intel_rdt: Select KERNFS when enabling INTEL_RDT_A
x86/intel_rdt: Prevent deadlock against hotplug lock
x86/intel_rdt: Protect info directory from removal
x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to Documentation
x86/intel_rdt: Export the minimum number of set mask bits in sysfs
x86/intel_rdt: Propagate error in rdt_mount() properly
x86/intel_rdt: Add a missing #include
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for Intel RDT resource allocation
x86/intel_rdt: Add scheduler hook
x86/intel_rdt: Add schemata file
x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files
x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus file
x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir to resctrl file system
x86/intel_rdt: Add "info" files to resctrl file system
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It means different things on Intel and AMD so write it down so that
there's no confusion.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117094557.jm6hwzdd52h7iwnj@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Concurrent write or read/write access from applications to the resctrlfs
directory can result in incorrect readouts or setups.
Recommend a standard locking scheme for applications to use.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161214170835.GA16924@amt.cnet
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"These are the documentation changes for 4.10.
It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
continues. Highlights include:
- Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
should be more solid now.
- Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
integrated.
- Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
source-friendly versions.
- Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
various files discussed at the kernel summit.
- New documentation for the device_link mechanism.
... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"
* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
Update Documentation/00-INDEX
docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS
Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
core-api: remove an unexpected unident
ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
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The content of the directories and files in the info directory of the
resctrl filesystem are not documented.
Add the missing bits and pieces.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The documentation describes user interface of how to allocate resource
in Intel RDT.
Please note that the documentation covers generic user interface. Current
patch set code only implemente CAT L3. CAT L2 code will be sent later.
[ tglx: Added cpu example ]
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com>
Cc: "Sai Prakhya" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: "Nilay Vaish" <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vikas Shivappa" <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477692289-37412-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack
values:
...
[registers]
Stack:
ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0
ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321
0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
...
This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed
anymore. It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be
actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses.
Linus says:
"The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be
useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because
stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I
definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having
used them in the last ten+ years.
Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've
likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so
useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above
harder."
This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the
'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the
syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory
areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the
documentation.
The mm side of this has been acked by Mel"
* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pkeys: Update documentation
x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used
x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches
x86/pkeys: Add self-tests
x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru
x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU
pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/
generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls
x86: Wire up protection keys system calls
x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls
x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags
mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call
x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
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There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection
keys documentation. The config option description only applied
to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current
code. There was also a typo with the number of system calls. I
also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided
facility, and where to find an implementation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004163857.71E0D6F6@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This spells out all of the pkey-related system calls that we have
and provides some example code fragments to demonstrate how we
expect them to be used.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160729163020.59350E33@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This is a trivial fix to correct upper bound addresses to always be
inclusive. Previously, the majority of ranges specified were inclusive with a
small minority specifying an exclusive upper bound. This patch fixes this
inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning
on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present"
* tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1
Documenation: update cgroup's document path
Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
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cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes:
- add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual
addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
(Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu)
- enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees
Cook)
- EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar)
- misc cleanups/fixes"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic
x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code
x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel
x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization
x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions
x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions
x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions
x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD
x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping
x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names
x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions
x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations
x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker
x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address
x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G
x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately
x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface
x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations
x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
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Randomizes the virtual address space of kernel memory regions for
x86_64. This first patch adds the infrastructure and does not randomize
any region. The following patches will randomize the physical memory
mapping, vmalloc and vmemmap regions.
This security feature mitigates exploits relying on predictable kernel
addresses. These addresses can be used to disclose the kernel modules
base addresses or corrupt specific structures to elevate privileges
bypassing the current implementation of KASLR. This feature can be
enabled with the CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY option.
The order of each memory region is not changed. The feature looks at the
available space for the regions based on different configuration options
and randomizes the base and space between each. The size of the physical
memory mapping is the available physical memory. No performance impact
was detected while testing the feature.
Entropy is generated using the KASLR early boot functions now shared in
the lib directory (originally written by Kees Cook). Randomization is
done on PGD & PUD page table levels to increase possible addresses. The
physical memory mapping code was adapted to support PUD level virtual
addresses. This implementation on the best configuration provides 30,000
possible virtual addresses in average for each memory region. An
additional low memory page is used to ensure each CPU can start with a
PGD aligned virtual address (for realmode).
x86/dump_pagetable was updated to correctly display each region.
Updated documentation on x86_64 memory layout accordingly.
Performance data, after all patches in the series:
Kernbench shows almost no difference (-+ less than 1%):
Before:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.63 (1.2695)
User Time 1034.89 (1.18115) System Time 87.056 (0.456416) Percent CPU 1092.9
(13.892) Context Switches 199805 (3455.33) Sleeps 97907.8 (900.636)
After:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.489 (1.10636)
User Time 1034.86 (1.36053) System Time 87.764 (0.49345) Percent CPU 1095
(12.7715) Context Switches 199036 (4298.1) Sleeps 97681.6 (1031.11)
Hackbench shows 0% difference on average (hackbench 90 repeated 10 times):
attemp,before,after 1,0.076,0.069 2,0.072,0.069 3,0.066,0.066 4,0.066,0.068
5,0.066,0.067 6,0.066,0.069 7,0.067,0.066 8,0.063,0.067 9,0.067,0.065
10,0.068,0.071 average,0.0677,0.0677
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466556426-32664-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160701034601.30308-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Document that builtin microcode is 64-bit only. Also, improve/add
comments to places.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465225850-7352-10-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
"A bit busier this time around.
The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning
infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using
restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be
able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better
integrated set of kernel docs. Someday.
Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees,
the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of
improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection
of corrections, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits)
doc: self-protection: provide initial details
serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info
serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex
Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g
Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior
docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output
docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option
docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space
docproc: abstract docproc directive detection
docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation
docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename
kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types
kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output
kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments
Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c
Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes
samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory
samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory
Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake
Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes
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Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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'cpu_has_pse' has changed to boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE), fix this
up in the merge commit when merging the x86/urgent tree that includes
the following commit:
103f6112f253 ("x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Correct the size of the module mapping space and the maximum available
physical memory size of current processors.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461310504-15977-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Update PAT documentation to describe how PAT is initialized under
various configurations.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: elliott@hpe.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-8-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Stefan Richter noticed that the X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS option
in arch/x86/Kconfig references Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt,
but the file does not exist.
This is a patch merging mishap: the final (v8) version of the pkeys
series did not include the documentation patch 32 and v7 included.
Add it now.
Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190634.426BEE41@viggo.jf.intel.com
[ Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This should contain important aspects of how we represent the system
topology on x86. If people have questions about it and this file doesn't
answer it, then it must be updated.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160328095609.GD26651@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:
- Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code.
This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which
has security and general robustness advantages. (Matt Fleming)
- Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled. This is already
the status quo under other OSs. (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable
attributes for EFI memory mappings. (Sai Praneeth Prakhya)
- Various arm64 UEFI enhancements. (Ard Biesheuvel)
- ... various fixes and cleanups.
The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already,
because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about
it - third time's the charm we hope!"
* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU
x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode
x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables
x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a >4 KB granular kernel
efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel
efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings
efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used
arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections
efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()
x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings
efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled
efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec
efi: Add Persistent Memory type name
efi: Add NV memory attribute
x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0
efivars: Use to_efivar_entry
efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 microcode updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change in this cycle was the separation of the microcode
loading mechanism from the initrd code plus the support of built-in
microcode images.
There were also lots cleanups and general restructuring (by Borislav
Petkov)"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/microcode/intel: Drop orig_sum from ext signature checksum
x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode sanity-checking error messages
x86/microcode/intel: Merge two consecutive if-statements
x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of DWSIZE
x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32
x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation
x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method
x86/microcode/AMD: Issue microcode updated message later
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Remove unused arg of get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_in_initrd
x86/microcode/intel: Use *wrmsrl variants
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup apply_microcode_intel()
x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_intel variable to mc
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_count to num_saved
x86/microcode/intel: Rename local variables of type struct mc_saved_data
x86/microcode/AMD: Drop redundant printk prefix
x86/microcode: Issue update message only once
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This is another big update. Main changes are:
- lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
enhancements. In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
corners have been refreshed. (Andy Lutomirski)
- vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
Lutomirski)
- cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)
- lots of other changes ..."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
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The Intel Software Developer Manual describes bit 24 in the MCG_CAP
MSR:
MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag,
bit 24 — Indicates (when set) that the processor supports
software error recovery
But only some models with this capability bit set will actually
generate recoverable machine checks.
Check the model name and set a synthetic capability bit. Provide
a command line option to set this bit anyway in case the kernel
doesn't recognise the model name.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e5bfb23c89800a036fb8a45fa97a74bb16bc362.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Huge amounts of help from Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.
Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:
' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '
The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.
We start out with three handlers:
1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add some text and an example to Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
explaining how to build in microcode.
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make it clear that the EFI page tables are only available during
EFI runtime calls since that subject has come up a fair numbers
of times in the past.
Additionally, add the EFI region start and end addresses to the
table so that it's possible to see at a glance where they fall
in relation to other regions.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448658575-17029-7-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The dominant change in this cycle was the continued work to isolate
kernel drivers from MTRR legacies: this tree gets rid of all kernel
internal driver interfaces to MTRRs (mostly by rewriting it to proper
PAT interfaces), the only access left is the /proc/mtrr ABI.
This work was done by Luis R Rodriguez.
There's also some related PCI interface additions for which I've
Cc:-ed Bjorn"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()
s390/io: Add pci_iomap_wc() and pci_iomap_wc_range()
drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style
drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants
drivers/video/fbdev/gxt4500: Use pci_ioremap_wc_bar() to map framebuffer
drivers/video/fbdev/kyrofb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
PCI: Add pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
x86/mm: Make kernel/check.c explicitly non-modular
x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular
x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables
arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_uc() to all architectures
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Replace MTRR UC hole with strong UC
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Clarify ioremap() base and length used
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Carve out framebuffer length fudging into a helper
x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main x86 bootup related changes in this cycle were:
- more boot time optimizations. (Len Brown)
- implement hex output to allow the debugging of early bootup
parameters. (Kees Cook)
- remove obsolete MCA leftovers. (Paolo Pisati)"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/smpboot: Remove APIC.wait_for_init_deassert and atomic init_deasserted
x86/smpboot: Remove SIPI delays from cpu_up()
x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map
x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_initialized_map
x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table
x86/boot: Add hex output for debugging
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mtrr_del()
The effort to replace mtrr_add() with architecture agnostic
arch_phys_wc_add() is complete, this will ensure write-combining
implementations (PAT on x86) is taken advantage instead of using
MTRR. With the effort done now, hide direct MTRR access for
drivers.
The legacy user-space /proc/mtrr ABI is not affected.
Update x86 documentation on MTRR to reflect the completion of
the phasing out of direct access to MTRR, also add a note on
platform firmware code use of MTRRs based on the obituary
discussion of MTRRs on Linux [0].
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438991330.3109.196.camel@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vinod.koul@intel.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440443613-13696-12-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The IRQSTACKSIZE was renamed to the IRQ_STACK_SIZE in the
(26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu) commit,
but it still named IRQSTACKSIZE in the documentation. This
patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.
bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
function old new delta
i386_start_kernel 128 119 -9
setup_arch 1421 1375 -46
Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The paths mentioned in this file weren't updated through some file
rename commits. Fix them to refer to the correct path.
Signed-off-by: James C Boyd <jcboyd.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435781606-3037-1-git-send-email-jcboyd.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge branch that got ready.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
collected into the 'x86/core' topic.
The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
end.
The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
have fewer dependencies).
The main changes in this cycle were:
* x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
Gleixner)
- This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
domains:
[IOAPIC domain] -----
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[MSI domain] --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
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[HPET MSI domain] ----- |
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[DMAR domain] -----------------------------
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[Legacy domain] -----------------------------
This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping. It's a clear
separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
and the vector management.
- Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
injection into guests (Feng Wu)
* x86/asm changes:
- Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations. This
is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
Brian Gerst)
- Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)
- Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)
- NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)
* x86/mm changes:
- Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)
- New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
Write-Through cached memory mappings. This is especially
important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)
* x86/ras changes:
- Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)
This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
poisoned data. That means roughly that the hardware marks data
which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
form of a deferred error. It is the OS's responsibility then to
take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
far as possible.
- Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)
- Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)
* x86/platform changes:
- Intel Atom SoC updates
... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
shortlog and the Git log for details"
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"EFI changes:
- Use idiomatic negative error values in efivar_create_sysfs_entry()
instead of returning '1' to indicate error (Dan Carpenter)
- Implement new support to expose the EFI System Resource Tables in
sysfs, which provides information for performing firmware updates
(Peter Jones)
- Documentation cleanup in the EFI handover protocol section which
falsely claimed that 'cmdline_size' needed to be filled out by the
boot loader (Alex Smith)
- Align the order of SMBIOS tables in /sys/firmware/efi/systab to
match the way that we do things for ACPI and add documentation to
Documentation/ABI (Jean Delvare)"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi: Work around ia64 build problem with ESRT driver
efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI
efi: dmi: List SMBIOS3 table before SMBIOS table
efi/esrt: Fix some compiler warnings
x86, doc: Remove cmdline_size from list of fields to be filled in for EFI handover
efi: Add esrt support
efi: efivar_create_sysfs_entry() should return negative error codes
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x86/core, to merge last updates
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Collect all changes to arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S, before applying
patch that changes most of the file.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Rename the following system call entry points:
ia32_cstar_target -> entry_SYSCALL_compat
ia32_syscall -> entry_INT80_compat
The generic naming scheme for x86 system call entry points is:
entry_MNEMONIC_qualifier
where 'qualifier' is one of _32, _64 or _compat.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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