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<title>ARC: build: Try to guess GCC variant of cross compiler</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T12:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
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<published>2024-12-03T12:37:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 824927e88456331c7a999fdf5d9d27923b619590 ]

ARC GCC compiler is packaged starting from Fedora 39i and the GCC
variant of cross compile tools has arc-linux-gnu- prefix and not
arc-linux-. This is causing that CROSS_COMPILE variable is left unset.

This change allows builds without need to supply CROSS_COMPILE argument
if distro package is used.

Before this change:
$ make -j 128 ARCH=arc W=1 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/
  gcc: warning: ‘-mcpu=’ is deprecated; use ‘-mtune=’ or ‘-march=’ instead
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mmedium-calls’
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mlock’
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-munaligned-access’

[1] https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/cross-gcc/gcc-arc-linux-gnu/index.html
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 824927e88456331c7a999fdf5d9d27923b619590 ]

ARC GCC compiler is packaged starting from Fedora 39i and the GCC
variant of cross compile tools has arc-linux-gnu- prefix and not
arc-linux-. This is causing that CROSS_COMPILE variable is left unset.

This change allows builds without need to supply CROSS_COMPILE argument
if distro package is used.

Before this change:
$ make -j 128 ARCH=arc W=1 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/
  gcc: warning: ‘-mcpu=’ is deprecated; use ‘-mtune=’ or ‘-march=’ instead
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mmedium-calls’
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mlock’
  gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-munaligned-access’

[1] https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/cross-gcc/gcc-arc-linux-gnu/index.html
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of/fdt: add dt_phys arg to early_init_dt_scan and early_init_dt_verify</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:31:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Usama Arif</name>
<email>usamaarif642@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T17:14:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b2473a359763e27567993e7d8f37de82f57a0829 ]

 __pa() is only intended to be used for linear map addresses and using
it for initial_boot_params which is in fixmap for arm64 will give an
incorrect value. Hence save the physical address when it is known at
boot time when calling early_init_dt_scan for arm64 and use it at kexec
time instead of converting the virtual address using __pa().

Note that arm64 doesn't need the FDT region reserved in the DT as the
kernel explicitly reserves the passed in FDT. Therefore, only a debug
warning is fixed with this change.

Reported-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: ac10be5cdbfa ("arm64: Use common of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023171426.452688-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b2473a359763e27567993e7d8f37de82f57a0829 ]

 __pa() is only intended to be used for linear map addresses and using
it for initial_boot_params which is in fixmap for arm64 will give an
incorrect value. Hence save the physical address when it is known at
boot time when calling early_init_dt_scan for arm64 and use it at kexec
time instead of converting the virtual address using __pa().

Note that arm64 doesn't need the FDT region reserved in the DT as the
kernel explicitly reserves the passed in FDT. Therefore, only a debug
warning is fixed with this change.

Reported-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: ac10be5cdbfa ("arm64: Use common of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023171426.452688-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: [plat-hsdk]: Remove misplaced interrupt-cells property</title>
<updated>2024-05-02T14:32:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-29T10:36:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 61231eb8113ce47991f35024f9c20810b37996bf ]

"gmac" node stands for just an ordinary Ethernet controller,
which is by no means a provider of interrupts, i.e. it doesn't serve
as an interrupt controller, thus "#interrupt-cells" property doesn't
belong to it and so we remove it.

Fixes:
------------&gt;8------------
  DTC     arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dtb
arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dts:207.23-235.5: Warning (interrupt_provider): /soc/ethernet@8000: '#interrupt-cells' found, but node is not an interrupt provider
arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dtb: Warning (interrupt_map): Failed prerequisite 'interrupt_provider'
------------&gt;8------------

Reported-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 61231eb8113ce47991f35024f9c20810b37996bf ]

"gmac" node stands for just an ordinary Ethernet controller,
which is by no means a provider of interrupts, i.e. it doesn't serve
as an interrupt controller, thus "#interrupt-cells" property doesn't
belong to it and so we remove it.

Fixes:
------------&gt;8------------
  DTC     arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dtb
arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dts:207.23-235.5: Warning (interrupt_provider): /soc/ethernet@8000: '#interrupt-cells' found, but node is not an interrupt provider
arch/arc/boot/dts/hsdk.dtb: Warning (interrupt_map): Failed prerequisite 'interrupt_provider'
------------&gt;8------------

Reported-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T08:24:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T20:39:31+00:00</published>
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commit 4356e9f841f7fbb945521cef3577ba394c65f3fc upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4356e9f841f7fbb945521cef3577ba394c65f3fc upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: Introduce flush_cache_vmap_early()</title>
<updated>2024-02-16T18:10:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alexghiti@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-12T21:34:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ]

The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc
mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the
flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet
initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush
other cpus TLB).

But on some architectures, we must call flush_cache_vmap(): for example,
in riscv, some uarchs can cache invalid TLB entries so we need to flush
the new established mapping to avoid taking an exception.

So fix this by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which
is called right after setting the new page table entry and before
accessing this new mapping. This new function implements a local flush
tlb on riscv and is no-op for other architectures (same as today).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d9807d60c145 ("riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ]

The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc
mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the
flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet
initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush
other cpus TLB).

But on some architectures, we must call flush_cache_vmap(): for example,
in riscv, some uarchs can cache invalid TLB entries so we need to flush
the new established mapping to avoid taking an exception.

So fix this by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which
is called right after setting the new page table entry and before
accessing this new mapping. This new function implements a local flush
tlb on riscv and is no-op for other architectures (same as today).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: d9807d60c145 ("riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: fix smatch warning</title>
<updated>2024-01-20T10:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-09T00:25:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4eb69d00fe967699b9d93f7e74a990fe813e8d2b ]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311280906.VAIwEAfT-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4eb69d00fe967699b9d93f7e74a990fe813e8d2b ]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311280906.VAIwEAfT-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: fix spare error</title>
<updated>2024-01-20T10:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-08T23:57:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit aca02d933f63ba8bc84258bf35f9ffaf6b664336 ]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312082320.VDN5A9hb-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit aca02d933f63ba8bc84258bf35f9ffaf6b664336 ]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312082320.VDN5A9hb-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arc-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc</title>
<updated>2023-09-04T22:38:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-04T22:38:24+00:00</published>
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - fixes for -Wmissing-prototype warnings

 - missing compiler barrier in relaxed atomics

 - some uaccess simplification, declutter

 - removal of massive glocal struct cpuinfo_arc from bootlog code

 - __switch_to consolidation (removal of inline asm variant)

 - use GP to cache task pointer (vs. r25)

 - misc rework of entry code

* tag 'arc-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (24 commits)
  ARC: boot log: fix warning
  arc: Explicitly include correct DT includes
  ARC: pt_regs: create seperate type for ecr
  ARCv2: entry: rearrange pt_regs slightly
  ARC: entry: replace 8 byte ADD.ne with 4 byte ADD2.ne
  ARC: entry: replace 8 byte OR with 4 byte BSET
  ARC: entry: Add more common chores to EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE
  ARC: entry: EV_MachineCheck dont re-read ECR
  ARC: entry: ARcompact EV_ProtV to use r10 directly
  ARC: entry: rework (non-functional)
  ARC: __switch_to: move ksp to thread_info from thread_struct
  ARC: __switch_to: asm with dwarf ops (vs. inline asm)
  ARC: kernel stack: INIT_THREAD need not setup @init_stack in @ksp
  ARC: entry: use gp to cache task pointer (vs. r25)
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #4: boot log per ISA
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #3: don't export
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #2: cache
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #1: mm
  ARCv2: memset: don't prefetch for len == 0 which happens a alot
  ARC: uaccess: elide unaliged handling if hardware supports
  ...
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - fixes for -Wmissing-prototype warnings

 - missing compiler barrier in relaxed atomics

 - some uaccess simplification, declutter

 - removal of massive glocal struct cpuinfo_arc from bootlog code

 - __switch_to consolidation (removal of inline asm variant)

 - use GP to cache task pointer (vs. r25)

 - misc rework of entry code

* tag 'arc-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (24 commits)
  ARC: boot log: fix warning
  arc: Explicitly include correct DT includes
  ARC: pt_regs: create seperate type for ecr
  ARCv2: entry: rearrange pt_regs slightly
  ARC: entry: replace 8 byte ADD.ne with 4 byte ADD2.ne
  ARC: entry: replace 8 byte OR with 4 byte BSET
  ARC: entry: Add more common chores to EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE
  ARC: entry: EV_MachineCheck dont re-read ECR
  ARC: entry: ARcompact EV_ProtV to use r10 directly
  ARC: entry: rework (non-functional)
  ARC: __switch_to: move ksp to thread_info from thread_struct
  ARC: __switch_to: asm with dwarf ops (vs. inline asm)
  ARC: kernel stack: INIT_THREAD need not setup @init_stack in @ksp
  ARC: entry: use gp to cache task pointer (vs. r25)
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #4: boot log per ISA
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #3: don't export
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #2: cache
  ARC: boot log: eliminate struct cpuinfo_arc #1: mm
  ARCv2: memset: don't prefetch for len == 0 which happens a alot
  ARC: uaccess: elide unaliged handling if hardware supports
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
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