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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v4.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'acpi-part2-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2018-02-09T17:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-09T17:44:25+00:00</published>
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Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are mostly fixes and cleanups, a few new quirks, a couple of
  updates related to the handling of ACPI tables and ACPICA copyrights
  refreshment.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA kernel code to upstream revision 20180105
     including:
       * Assorted fixes (Jung-uk Kim)
       * Support for X32 ABI compilation (Anuj Mittal)
       * Update of ACPICA copyrights to 2018 (Bob Moore)

   - Prepare for future modifications to avoid executing the _STA
     control method too early (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the processor performance control library code ignore _PPC
     notifications if they cannot be handled and fix up the C1 idle
     state definition when it is used as a fallback state (Chen Yu,
     Yazen Ghannam)

   - Make it possible to use the SPCR table on x86 and to replace the
     original IORT table with a new one from initrd (Prarit Bhargava,
     Shunyong Yang)

   - Add battery-related quirks for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK and add
     quirks for table parsing on Dell XPS 9570 and Precision M5530 (Kai
     Heng Feng)

   - Address static checker warnings in the CPPC code (Gustavo Silva)

   - Avoid printing a raw pointer to the kernel log in the smart battery
     driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)"

* tag 'acpi-part2-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI: sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk() message
  ACPI: SPCR: Make SPCR available to x86
  ACPI / CPPC: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  ACPI / tables: Add IORT to injectable table list
  ACPI / bus: Parse tables as term_list for Dell XPS 9570 and Precision M5530
  ACPICA: Update version to 20180105
  ACPICA: All acpica: Update copyrights to 2018
  ACPI / processor: Set default C1 idle state description
  ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK
  ACPI: processor_perflib: Do not send _PPC change notification if not ready
  ACPI / scan: Use acpi_bus_get_status() to initialize ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE devs
  ACPI / bus: Do not call _STA on battery devices with unmet dependencies
  PCI: acpiphp_ibm: prepare for acpi_get_object_info() no longer returning status
  ACPI: export acpi_bus_get_status_handle()
  ACPICA: Add a missing pair of parentheses
  ACPICA: Prefer ACPI_TO_POINTER() over ACPI_ADD_PTR()
  ACPICA: Avoid NULL pointer arithmetic
  ACPICA: Linux: add support for X32 ABI compilation
  ACPI / video: Use true for boolean value
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<pre>
Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are mostly fixes and cleanups, a few new quirks, a couple of
  updates related to the handling of ACPI tables and ACPICA copyrights
  refreshment.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA kernel code to upstream revision 20180105
     including:
       * Assorted fixes (Jung-uk Kim)
       * Support for X32 ABI compilation (Anuj Mittal)
       * Update of ACPICA copyrights to 2018 (Bob Moore)

   - Prepare for future modifications to avoid executing the _STA
     control method too early (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the processor performance control library code ignore _PPC
     notifications if they cannot be handled and fix up the C1 idle
     state definition when it is used as a fallback state (Chen Yu,
     Yazen Ghannam)

   - Make it possible to use the SPCR table on x86 and to replace the
     original IORT table with a new one from initrd (Prarit Bhargava,
     Shunyong Yang)

   - Add battery-related quirks for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK and add
     quirks for table parsing on Dell XPS 9570 and Precision M5530 (Kai
     Heng Feng)

   - Address static checker warnings in the CPPC code (Gustavo Silva)

   - Avoid printing a raw pointer to the kernel log in the smart battery
     driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)"

* tag 'acpi-part2-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI: sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk() message
  ACPI: SPCR: Make SPCR available to x86
  ACPI / CPPC: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  ACPI / tables: Add IORT to injectable table list
  ACPI / bus: Parse tables as term_list for Dell XPS 9570 and Precision M5530
  ACPICA: Update version to 20180105
  ACPICA: All acpica: Update copyrights to 2018
  ACPI / processor: Set default C1 idle state description
  ACPI / battery: Add quirk for Asus UX360UA and UX410UAK
  ACPI: processor_perflib: Do not send _PPC change notification if not ready
  ACPI / scan: Use acpi_bus_get_status() to initialize ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE devs
  ACPI / bus: Do not call _STA on battery devices with unmet dependencies
  PCI: acpiphp_ibm: prepare for acpi_get_object_info() no longer returning status
  ACPI: export acpi_bus_get_status_handle()
  ACPICA: Add a missing pair of parentheses
  ACPICA: Prefer ACPI_TO_POINTER() over ACPI_ADD_PTR()
  ACPICA: Avoid NULL pointer arithmetic
  ACPICA: Linux: add support for X32 ABI compilation
  ACPI / video: Use true for boolean value
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T17:42:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T17:42:59+00:00</published>
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Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that
  had no reason to wait another cycle"

* tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide
  Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst
  Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies
  Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
  Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
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<pre>
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that
  had no reason to wait another cycle"

* tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide
  Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst
  Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies
  Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
  Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: SPCR: Make SPCR available to x86</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T10:39:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prarit Bhargava</name>
<email>prarit@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T15:09:51+00:00</published>
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SPCR is currently only enabled or ARM64 and x86 can use SPCR to setup
an early console.

General fixes include updating Documentation &amp; Kconfig (for x86),
updating comments, and changing parse_spcr() to acpi_parse_spcr(),
and earlycon_init_is_deferred to earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable to be
more descriptive.

On x86, many systems have a valid SPCR table but the table version is
not 2 so the table version check must be a warning.

On ARM64 when the kernel parameter earlycon is used both the early console
and console are enabled.  On x86, only the earlycon should be enabled by
by default.  Modify acpi_parse_spcr() to allow options for initializing
the early console and console separately.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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SPCR is currently only enabled or ARM64 and x86 can use SPCR to setup
an early console.

General fixes include updating Documentation &amp; Kconfig (for x86),
updating comments, and changing parse_spcr() to acpi_parse_spcr(),
and earlycon_init_is_deferred to earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable to be
more descriptive.

On x86, many systems have a valid SPCR table but the table version is
not 2 so the table version check must be a warning.

On ARM64 when the kernel parameter earlycon is used both the early console
and console are enabled.  On x86, only the earlycon should be enabled by
by default.  Modify acpi_parse_spcr() to allow options for initializing
the early console and console separately.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T17:59:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T17:59:40+00:00</published>
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - skip AER driver error recovery callbacks for correctable errors
   reported via ACPI APEI, as we already do for errors reported via the
   native path (Tyler Baicar)

 - fix DPC shared interrupt handling (Alex Williamson)

 - print full DPC interrupt number (Keith Busch)

 - enable DPC only if AER is available (Keith Busch)

 - simplify DPC code (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - calculate ASPM L1 substate parameter instead of hardcoding it (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - enable Latency Tolerance Reporting for ASPM L1 substates (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - move ASPM internal interfaces out of public header (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - allow hot-removal of VGA devices (Mika Westerberg)

 - speed up unplug and shutdown by assuming Thunderbolt controllers
   don't support Command Completed events (Lukas Wunner)

 - add AtomicOps support for GPU and Infiniband drivers (Felix Kuehling,
   Jay Cornwall)

 - expose "ari_enabled" in sysfs to help NIC naming (Stuart Hayes)

 - clean up PCI DMA interface usage (Christoph Hellwig)

 - remove PCI pool API (replaced with DMA pool) (Romain Perier)

 - deprecate pci_get_bus_and_slot(), which assumed PCI domain 0 (Sinan
   Kaya)

 - move DT PCI code from drivers/of/ to drivers/pci/ (Rob Herring)

 - add PCI-specific wrappers for dev_info(), etc (Frederick Lawler)

 - remove warnings on sysfs mmap failure (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quiet ROM validation messages (Alex Deucher)

 - remove redundant memory alloc failure messages (Markus Elfring)

 - fill in types for compile-time VGA and other I/O port resources
   (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - make "pci=pcie_scan_all" work for Root Ports as well as Downstream
   Ports to help AmigaOne X1000 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - add SPDX tags to all PCI files (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quirk Marvell 9128 DMA aliases (Alex Williamson)

 - quirk broken INTx disable on Ceton InfiniTV4 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - fix CONFIG_PCI=n build by adding dummy pci_irqd_intx_xlate() (Niklas
   Cassel)

 - use DMA API to get MSI address for DesignWare IP (Niklas Cassel)

 - fix endpoint-mode DMA mask configuration (Kishon Vijay Abraham I)

 - fix ARTPEC-6 incorrect IS_ERR() usage (Wei Yongjun)

 - add support for ARTPEC-7 SoC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add endpoint-mode support for ARTPEC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add Cadence PCIe host and endpoint controller driver (Cyrille
   Pitchen)

 - handle multiple INTx status bits being set in dra7xx (Vignesh R)

 - translate dra7xx hwirq range to fix INTD handling (Vignesh R)

 - remove deprecated Exynos PHY initialization code (Jaehoon Chung)

 - fix MSI erratum workaround for HiSilicon Hip06/Hip07 (Dongdong Liu)

 - fix NULL pointer dereference in iProc BCMA driver (Ray Jui)

 - fix Keystone interrupt-controller-node lookup (Johan Hovold)

 - constify qcom driver structures (Julia Lawall)

 - rework Tegra config space mapping to increase space available for
   endpoints (Vidya Sagar)

 - simplify Tegra driver by using bus-&gt;sysdata (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - remove PCI_REASSIGN_ALL_BUS usage on Tegra (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - add support for Global Fabric Manager Server (GFMS) event to
   Microsemi Switchtec switch driver (Logan Gunthorpe)

 - add IDs for Switchtec PSX 24xG3 and PSX 48xG3 (Kelvin Cao)

* tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (140 commits)
  PCI: cadence: Add EndPoint Controller driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe endpoint controller
  PCI: endpoint: Fix EPF device name to support multi-function devices
  PCI: endpoint: Add the function number as argument to EPC ops
  PCI: cadence: Add host driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe host controller
  PCI: Add vendor ID for Cadence
  PCI: Add generic function to probe PCI host controllers
  PCI: generic: fix missing call of pci_free_resource_list()
  PCI: OF: Add generic function to parse and allocate PCI resources
  PCI: Regroup all PCI related entries into drivers/pci/Makefile
  PCI/DPC: Reformat DPC register definitions
  PCI/DPC: Add and use DPC Status register field definitions
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_get_info() into dpc_process_rp_pio_error()
  PCI/DPC: Remove unnecessary RP PIO register structs
  PCI/DPC: Push dpc-&gt;rp_pio_status assignment into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_error() into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Make RP PIO log size check more generic
  PCI/DPC: Rename local "status" to "dpc_status"
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_tlp_header() into dpc_rp_pio_print_error()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - skip AER driver error recovery callbacks for correctable errors
   reported via ACPI APEI, as we already do for errors reported via the
   native path (Tyler Baicar)

 - fix DPC shared interrupt handling (Alex Williamson)

 - print full DPC interrupt number (Keith Busch)

 - enable DPC only if AER is available (Keith Busch)

 - simplify DPC code (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - calculate ASPM L1 substate parameter instead of hardcoding it (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - enable Latency Tolerance Reporting for ASPM L1 substates (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - move ASPM internal interfaces out of public header (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - allow hot-removal of VGA devices (Mika Westerberg)

 - speed up unplug and shutdown by assuming Thunderbolt controllers
   don't support Command Completed events (Lukas Wunner)

 - add AtomicOps support for GPU and Infiniband drivers (Felix Kuehling,
   Jay Cornwall)

 - expose "ari_enabled" in sysfs to help NIC naming (Stuart Hayes)

 - clean up PCI DMA interface usage (Christoph Hellwig)

 - remove PCI pool API (replaced with DMA pool) (Romain Perier)

 - deprecate pci_get_bus_and_slot(), which assumed PCI domain 0 (Sinan
   Kaya)

 - move DT PCI code from drivers/of/ to drivers/pci/ (Rob Herring)

 - add PCI-specific wrappers for dev_info(), etc (Frederick Lawler)

 - remove warnings on sysfs mmap failure (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quiet ROM validation messages (Alex Deucher)

 - remove redundant memory alloc failure messages (Markus Elfring)

 - fill in types for compile-time VGA and other I/O port resources
   (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - make "pci=pcie_scan_all" work for Root Ports as well as Downstream
   Ports to help AmigaOne X1000 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - add SPDX tags to all PCI files (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quirk Marvell 9128 DMA aliases (Alex Williamson)

 - quirk broken INTx disable on Ceton InfiniTV4 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - fix CONFIG_PCI=n build by adding dummy pci_irqd_intx_xlate() (Niklas
   Cassel)

 - use DMA API to get MSI address for DesignWare IP (Niklas Cassel)

 - fix endpoint-mode DMA mask configuration (Kishon Vijay Abraham I)

 - fix ARTPEC-6 incorrect IS_ERR() usage (Wei Yongjun)

 - add support for ARTPEC-7 SoC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add endpoint-mode support for ARTPEC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add Cadence PCIe host and endpoint controller driver (Cyrille
   Pitchen)

 - handle multiple INTx status bits being set in dra7xx (Vignesh R)

 - translate dra7xx hwirq range to fix INTD handling (Vignesh R)

 - remove deprecated Exynos PHY initialization code (Jaehoon Chung)

 - fix MSI erratum workaround for HiSilicon Hip06/Hip07 (Dongdong Liu)

 - fix NULL pointer dereference in iProc BCMA driver (Ray Jui)

 - fix Keystone interrupt-controller-node lookup (Johan Hovold)

 - constify qcom driver structures (Julia Lawall)

 - rework Tegra config space mapping to increase space available for
   endpoints (Vidya Sagar)

 - simplify Tegra driver by using bus-&gt;sysdata (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - remove PCI_REASSIGN_ALL_BUS usage on Tegra (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - add support for Global Fabric Manager Server (GFMS) event to
   Microsemi Switchtec switch driver (Logan Gunthorpe)

 - add IDs for Switchtec PSX 24xG3 and PSX 48xG3 (Kelvin Cao)

* tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (140 commits)
  PCI: cadence: Add EndPoint Controller driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe endpoint controller
  PCI: endpoint: Fix EPF device name to support multi-function devices
  PCI: endpoint: Add the function number as argument to EPC ops
  PCI: cadence: Add host driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe host controller
  PCI: Add vendor ID for Cadence
  PCI: Add generic function to probe PCI host controllers
  PCI: generic: fix missing call of pci_free_resource_list()
  PCI: OF: Add generic function to parse and allocate PCI resources
  PCI: Regroup all PCI related entries into drivers/pci/Makefile
  PCI/DPC: Reformat DPC register definitions
  PCI/DPC: Add and use DPC Status register field definitions
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_get_info() into dpc_process_rp_pio_error()
  PCI/DPC: Remove unnecessary RP PIO register structs
  PCI/DPC: Push dpc-&gt;rp_pio_status assignment into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_error() into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Make RP PIO log size check more generic
  PCI/DPC: Rename local "status" to "dpc_status"
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_tlp_header() into dpc_rp_pio_print_error()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=35277995e17919ab838beae765f440674e8576eb'/>
<id>35277995e17919ab838beae765f440674e8576eb</id>
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Pull spectre/meltdown updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The next round of updates related to melted spectrum:

   - The initial set of spectre V1 mitigations:

       - Array index speculation blocker and its usage for syscall,
         fdtable and the n180211 driver.

       - Speculation barrier and its usage in user access functions

   - Make indirect calls in KVM speculation safe

   - Blacklisting of known to be broken microcodes so IPBP/IBSR are not
     touched.

   - The initial IBPB support and its usage in context switch

   - The exposure of the new speculation MSRs to KVM guests.

   - A fix for a regression in x86/32 related to the cpu entry area

   - Proper whitelisting for known to be safe CPUs from the mitigations.

   - objtool fixes to deal proper with retpolines and alternatives

   - Exclude __init functions from retpolines which speeds up the boot
     process.

   - Removal of the syscall64 fast path and related cleanups and
     simplifications

   - Removal of the unpatched paravirt mode which is yet another source
     of indirect unproteced calls.

   - A new and undisputed version of the module mismatch warning

   - A couple of cleanup and correctness fixes all over the place

  Yet another step towards full mitigation. There are a few things still
  missing like the RBS underflow mitigation for Skylake and other small
  details, but that's being worked on.

  That said, I'm taking a belated christmas vacation for a week and hope
  that everything is magically solved when I'm back on Feb 12th"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
  KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
  KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
  x86/speculation: Fix typo IBRS_ATT, which should be IBRS_ALL
  x86/pti: Mark constant arrays as __initconst
  x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing
  x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
  x86/kvm: Update spectre-v1 mitigation
  KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
  x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
  x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel
  x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-&gt; "vulnerable"
  x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
  nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
  vfs, fdtable: Prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
  x86/syscall: Sanitize syscall table de-references under speculation
  x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull spectre/meltdown updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The next round of updates related to melted spectrum:

   - The initial set of spectre V1 mitigations:

       - Array index speculation blocker and its usage for syscall,
         fdtable and the n180211 driver.

       - Speculation barrier and its usage in user access functions

   - Make indirect calls in KVM speculation safe

   - Blacklisting of known to be broken microcodes so IPBP/IBSR are not
     touched.

   - The initial IBPB support and its usage in context switch

   - The exposure of the new speculation MSRs to KVM guests.

   - A fix for a regression in x86/32 related to the cpu entry area

   - Proper whitelisting for known to be safe CPUs from the mitigations.

   - objtool fixes to deal proper with retpolines and alternatives

   - Exclude __init functions from retpolines which speeds up the boot
     process.

   - Removal of the syscall64 fast path and related cleanups and
     simplifications

   - Removal of the unpatched paravirt mode which is yet another source
     of indirect unproteced calls.

   - A new and undisputed version of the module mismatch warning

   - A couple of cleanup and correctness fixes all over the place

  Yet another step towards full mitigation. There are a few things still
  missing like the RBS underflow mitigation for Skylake and other small
  details, but that's being worked on.

  That said, I'm taking a belated christmas vacation for a week and hope
  that everything is magically solved when I'm back on Feb 12th"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
  KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
  KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
  x86/speculation: Fix typo IBRS_ATT, which should be IBRS_ALL
  x86/pti: Mark constant arrays as __initconst
  x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing
  x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
  x86/kvm: Update spectre-v1 mitigation
  KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
  x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
  x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel
  x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-&gt; "vulnerable"
  x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
  nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
  vfs, fdtable: Prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
  x86/syscall: Sanitize syscall table de-references under speculation
  x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451'/>
<id>ab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451</id>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T19:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-28T02:49:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=54e36a2dc554685463af54b4ac97a5ec022bd09c'/>
<id>54e36a2dc554685463af54b4ac97a5ec022bd09c</id>
<content type='text'>
Edits for grammar, punctuation, and a doubled-up word.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Jamet &lt;michael.jamet@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yehezkel Bernat &lt;yehezkel.bernat@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Edits for grammar, punctuation, and a doubled-up word.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Jamet &lt;michael.jamet@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yehezkel Bernat &lt;yehezkel.bernat@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T19:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T19:45:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=562f36ed28e6faa4245ea2ca1392d90ab98ebbe8'/>
<id>562f36ed28e6faa4245ea2ca1392d90ab98ebbe8</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates.

  I have to mention the lexer and parser of Kconfig are now built from
  real .l and .y sources. So, flex and bison are the requirement for
  building the kernel. Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for
  a long time. This change has been tested several weeks in linux-next,
  and I did not receive any problem report about this.

  Summary:

   - add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in choice,
     help is doubled

   - document data structure and complex code

   - fix various memory leaks

   - change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using
     pre-generated C files

   - drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool'

   - use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables

   - fix gettext() check for xconfig

   - announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed

   - make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and search
     result

   - hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people

   - fix misc things and cleanups"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (37 commits)
  kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help
  kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable
  kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used
  kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing
  kconfig: Clarify menu and 'if' dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document 'if' flattening logic
  kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document SYMBOL_OPTIONAL logic
  kbuild: remove unnecessary LEX_PREFIX and YACC_PREFIX
  kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser
  kconfig: make conf_unsaved a local variable of conf_read()
  kconfig: make xfgets() really static
  kconfig: make input_mode static
  kconfig: Warn if there is more than one help text
  kconfig: drop 'boolean' keyword
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes, again
  kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry()
  kconfig: Document important expression functions
  kconfig: Document automatic submenu creation code
  kconfig: Fix choice symbol expression leak
  ...
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Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates.

  I have to mention the lexer and parser of Kconfig are now built from
  real .l and .y sources. So, flex and bison are the requirement for
  building the kernel. Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for
  a long time. This change has been tested several weeks in linux-next,
  and I did not receive any problem report about this.

  Summary:

   - add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in choice,
     help is doubled

   - document data structure and complex code

   - fix various memory leaks

   - change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using
     pre-generated C files

   - drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool'

   - use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables

   - fix gettext() check for xconfig

   - announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed

   - make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and search
     result

   - hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people

   - fix misc things and cleanups"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (37 commits)
  kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help
  kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable
  kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used
  kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing
  kconfig: Clarify menu and 'if' dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document 'if' flattening logic
  kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation
  kconfig: Document SYMBOL_OPTIONAL logic
  kbuild: remove unnecessary LEX_PREFIX and YACC_PREFIX
  kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser
  kconfig: make conf_unsaved a local variable of conf_read()
  kconfig: make xfgets() really static
  kconfig: make input_mode static
  kconfig: Warn if there is more than one help text
  kconfig: drop 'boolean' keyword
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes, again
  kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry()
  kconfig: Document important expression functions
  kconfig: Document automatic submenu creation code
  kconfig: Fix choice symbol expression leak
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=255442c93843f52b6891b21d0b485bf2c97f93c3'/>
<id>255442c93843f52b6891b21d0b485bf2c97f93c3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T09:37:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T04:13:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd'/>
<id>12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd</id>
<content type='text'>
The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the
original pv indirect calls in place.

That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify
paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines.

As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much
other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel
vulnerable to Spectre v2.  It was probably a debug option from the early
paravirt days.  So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jun Nakajima &lt;jun.nakajima@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Asit Mallick &lt;asit.k.mallick@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble

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The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the
original pv indirect calls in place.

That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify
paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines.

As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much
other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel
vulnerable to Spectre v2.  It was probably a debug option from the early
paravirt days.  So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jun Nakajima &lt;jun.nakajima@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Asit Mallick &lt;asit.k.mallick@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble

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