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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.9.321</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: report Spectre v2 status through sysfs</title>
<updated>2022-03-11T09:03:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-11T16:45:54+00:00</published>
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commit 9dd78194a3722fa6712192cdd4f7032d45112a9a upstream.

As per other architectures, add support for reporting the Spectre
vulnerability status via sysfs CPU.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
[ preserve res variable and add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_RET_UNAFFECTED - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9dd78194a3722fa6712192cdd4f7032d45112a9a upstream.

As per other architectures, add support for reporting the Spectre
vulnerability status via sysfs CPU.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
[ preserve res variable and add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_RET_UNAFFECTED - gregkh ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8918/2: only build return_address() if needed</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T09:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben-linux@fluff.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T17:15:15+00:00</published>
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commit fb033c95c94ca1ee3d16e04ebdb85d65fb55fff8 upstream.

The system currently warns if the config conditions for
building return_address in arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c
are not met, leaving just an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(return_address)
of a function defined to be 'static linline'.
This is a result of aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h").

Since we're not going to build anything other than an exported
symbol for something that is already being defined to be an
inline-able return of NULL, just avoid building the code to
remove the following warning:

Fixes: aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fb033c95c94ca1ee3d16e04ebdb85d65fb55fff8 upstream.

The system currently warns if the config conditions for
building return_address in arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c
are not met, leaving just an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(return_address)
of a function defined to be 'static linline'.
This is a result of aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h").

Since we're not going to build anything other than an exported
symbol for something that is already being defined to be an
inline-able return of NULL, just avoid building the code to
remove the following warning:

Fixes: aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: bugs: prepare processor bug infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-11-23T07:20:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-07T16:43:40+00:00</published>
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Commit a5b9177f69329314721aa7022b7e69dab23fa1f0 upstream.

Prepare the processor bug infrastructure so that it can be expanded to
check for per-processor bugs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit a5b9177f69329314721aa7022b7e69dab23fa1f0 upstream.

Prepare the processor bug infrastructure so that it can be expanded to
check for per-processor bugs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "arm: move exports to definitions"</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: move exports to definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:47:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T18:46:22+00:00</published>
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<id>4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8534/1: virt: fix hyp-stub build for pre-ARMv7 CPUs</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T11:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean-Philippe Brucker</name>
<email>jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T10:04:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c7edd7f99cdaec65e9303b4c9edc19bb595564ed'/>
<id>c7edd7f99cdaec65e9303b4c9edc19bb595564ed</id>
<content type='text'>
ARMv6 CPUs do not have virtualisation extensions, but hyp-stub.S is
still included into the image to keep it generic. In order to use ARMv7
instructions during HYP initialisation, add -march=armv7-a flag to
hyp-stub's build.

On an ARMv6 CPU, __hyp_stub_install returns as soon as it detects that
the mode isn't HYP, so we will never reach those instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ARMv6 CPUs do not have virtualisation extensions, but hyp-stub.S is
still included into the image to keep it generic. In order to use ARMv7
instructions during HYP initialisation, add -march=armv7-a flag to
hyp-stub's build.

On an ARMv6 CPU, __hyp_stub_install returns as soon as it detects that
the mode isn't HYP, so we will never reach those instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-4.5-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T21:05:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T21:05:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c9bed1cf51011c815d88288b774865d013ca78a8'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and fixes for 4.5-rc0:

   - Stolen ticks and PV wallclock support for arm/arm64

   - Add grant copy ioctl to gntdev device"

* tag 'for-linus-4.5-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy
  x86/xen: don't reset vcpu_info on a cancelled suspend
  xen/gntdev: constify mmu_notifier_ops structures
  xen/grant-table: constify gnttab_ops structure
  xen/time: use READ_ONCE
  xen/x86: convert remaining timespec to timespec64 in xen_pvclock_gtod_notify
  xen/x86: support XENPF_settime64
  xen/arm: set the system time in Xen via the XENPF_settime64 hypercall
  xen/arm: introduce xen_read_wallclock
  arm: extend pvclock_wall_clock with sec_hi
  xen: introduce XENPF_settime64
  xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64
  xen: rename dom0_op to platform_op
  xen/arm: account for stolen ticks
  arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
  arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
  missing include asm/paravirt.h in cputime.c
  xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to drivers/xen/time.c
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and fixes for 4.5-rc0:

   - Stolen ticks and PV wallclock support for arm/arm64

   - Add grant copy ioctl to gntdev device"

* tag 'for-linus-4.5-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy
  x86/xen: don't reset vcpu_info on a cancelled suspend
  xen/gntdev: constify mmu_notifier_ops structures
  xen/grant-table: constify gnttab_ops structure
  xen/time: use READ_ONCE
  xen/x86: convert remaining timespec to timespec64 in xen_pvclock_gtod_notify
  xen/x86: support XENPF_settime64
  xen/arm: set the system time in Xen via the XENPF_settime64 hypercall
  xen/arm: introduce xen_read_wallclock
  arm: extend pvclock_wall_clock with sec_hi
  xen: introduce XENPF_settime64
  xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64
  xen: rename dom0_op to platform_op
  xen/arm: account for stolen ticks
  arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
  arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
  missing include asm/paravirt.h in cputime.c
  xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to drivers/xen/time.c
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T13:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T13:41:03+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8481/2: drivers: psci: replace psci firmware calls</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T16:24:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Wiklander</name>
<email>jens.wiklander@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-04T14:46:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e679660dbb8347f275fe5d83a5dd59c1fb6c8e63'/>
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<content type='text'>
Switch to use a generic interface for issuing SMC/HVC based on ARM SMC
Calling Convention. Removes now the now unused psci-call.S.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander &lt;jens.wiklander@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Switch to use a generic interface for issuing SMC/HVC based on ARM SMC
Calling Convention. Removes now the now unused psci-call.S.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander &lt;jens.wiklander@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8479/2: add implementation for arm-smccc</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T16:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Wiklander</name>
<email>jens.wiklander@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-04T14:42:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b329f95d70f3f955093e9a2b18ac1ed3587a8f73'/>
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Adds implementation for arm-smccc and enables CONFIG_HAVE_SMCCC for
architectures that may support arm-smccc. It's the responsibility of the
caller to know if the SMC instruction is supported by the platform.

Reviewed-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander &lt;jens.wiklander@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Adds implementation for arm-smccc and enables CONFIG_HAVE_SMCCC for
architectures that may support arm-smccc. It's the responsibility of the
caller to know if the SMC instruction is supported by the platform.

Reviewed-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander &lt;jens.wiklander@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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