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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm64/include/uapi, branch v5.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-09-18T16:49:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-18T16:49:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fe38bd6862074c0a2b9be7f31f043aaa70b2af5f'/>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "s390:
   - ioctl hardening
   - selftests

  ARM:
   - ITS translation cache
   - support for 512 vCPUs
   - various cleanups and bugfixes

  PPC:
   - various minor fixes and preparation

  x86:
   - bugfixes all over the place (posted interrupts, SVM, emulation
     corner cases, blocked INIT)
   - some IPI optimizations"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (75 commits)
  KVM: X86: Use IPI shorthands in kvm guest when support
  KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states
  KVM: VMX: Introduce exit reason for receiving INIT signal on guest-mode
  KVM: VMX: Stop the preemption timer during vCPU reset
  KVM: LAPIC: Micro optimize IPI latency
  kvm: Nested KVM MMUs need PAE root too
  KVM: x86: set ctxt-&gt;have_exception in x86_decode_insn()
  KVM: x86: always stop emulation on page fault
  KVM: nVMX: trace nested VM-Enter failures detected by H/W
  KVM: nVMX: add tracepoint for failed nested VM-Enter
  x86: KVM: svm: Fix a check in nested_svm_vmrun()
  KVM: x86: Return to userspace with internal error on unexpected exit reason
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_emulate_{rd,wr}msr() to consolidate VXM/SVM code
  KVM: x86: Refactor up kvm_{g,s}et_msr() to simplify callers
  doc: kvm: Fix return description of KVM_SET_MSRS
  KVM: X86: Tune PLE Window tracepoint
  KVM: VMX: Change ple_window type to unsigned int
  KVM: X86: Remove tailing newline for tracepoints
  KVM: X86: Trace vcpu_id for vmexit
  KVM: x86: Manually calculate reserved bits when loading PDPTRS
  ...
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<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "s390:
   - ioctl hardening
   - selftests

  ARM:
   - ITS translation cache
   - support for 512 vCPUs
   - various cleanups and bugfixes

  PPC:
   - various minor fixes and preparation

  x86:
   - bugfixes all over the place (posted interrupts, SVM, emulation
     corner cases, blocked INIT)
   - some IPI optimizations"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (75 commits)
  KVM: X86: Use IPI shorthands in kvm guest when support
  KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states
  KVM: VMX: Introduce exit reason for receiving INIT signal on guest-mode
  KVM: VMX: Stop the preemption timer during vCPU reset
  KVM: LAPIC: Micro optimize IPI latency
  kvm: Nested KVM MMUs need PAE root too
  KVM: x86: set ctxt-&gt;have_exception in x86_decode_insn()
  KVM: x86: always stop emulation on page fault
  KVM: nVMX: trace nested VM-Enter failures detected by H/W
  KVM: nVMX: add tracepoint for failed nested VM-Enter
  x86: KVM: svm: Fix a check in nested_svm_vmrun()
  KVM: x86: Return to userspace with internal error on unexpected exit reason
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_emulate_{rd,wr}msr() to consolidate VXM/SVM code
  KVM: x86: Refactor up kvm_{g,s}et_msr() to simplify callers
  doc: kvm: Fix return description of KVM_SET_MSRS
  KVM: X86: Tune PLE Window tracepoint
  KVM: VMX: Change ple_window type to unsigned int
  KVM: X86: Remove tailing newline for tracepoints
  KVM: X86: Trace vcpu_id for vmexit
  KVM: x86: Manually calculate reserved bits when loading PDPTRS
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Allow more than 256 vcpus for KVM_IRQ_LINE</title>
<updated>2019-09-09T11:29:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>maz@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-18T13:09:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=92f35b751c71d14250a401246f2c792e3aa5b386'/>
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While parts of the VGIC support a large number of vcpus (we
bravely allow up to 512), other parts are more limited.

One of these limits is visible in the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which
only allows 256 vcpus to be signalled when using the CPU or PPI
types. Unfortunately, we've cornered ourselves badly by allocating
all the bits in the irq field.

Since the irq_type subfield (8 bit wide) is currently only taking
the values 0, 1 and 2 (and we have been careful not to allow anything
else), let's reduce this field to only 4 bits, and allocate the
remaining 4 bits to a vcpu2_index, which acts as a multiplier:

  vcpu_id = 256 * vcpu2_index + vcpu_index

With that, and a new capability (KVM_CAP_ARM_IRQ_LINE_LAYOUT_2)
allowing this to be discovered, it becomes possible to inject
PPIs to up to 4096 vcpus. But please just don't.

Whilst we're there, add a clarification about the use of KVM_IRQ_LINE
on arm, which is not completely conditionned by KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP.

Reported-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;yuzenghui@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;yuzenghui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
While parts of the VGIC support a large number of vcpus (we
bravely allow up to 512), other parts are more limited.

One of these limits is visible in the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which
only allows 256 vcpus to be signalled when using the CPU or PPI
types. Unfortunately, we've cornered ourselves badly by allocating
all the bits in the irq field.

Since the irq_type subfield (8 bit wide) is currently only taking
the values 0, 1 and 2 (and we have been careful not to allow anything
else), let's reduce this field to only 4 bits, and allocate the
remaining 4 bits to a vcpu2_index, which acts as a multiplier:

  vcpu_id = 256 * vcpu2_index + vcpu_index

With that, and a new capability (KVM_CAP_ARM_IRQ_LINE_LAYOUT_2)
allowing this to be discovered, it becomes possible to inject
PPIs to up to 4096 vcpus. But please just don't.

Whilst we're there, add a clarification about the use of KVM_IRQ_LINE
on arm, which is not completely conditionned by KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP.

Reported-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;yuzenghui@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;yuzenghui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: remove unneeded uapi/asm/stat.h</title>
<updated>2019-08-05T10:06:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-23T11:29:22+00:00</published>
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stat.h is listed in include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild, so Kbuild will
automatically generate it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
stat.h is listed in include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild, so Kbuild will
automatically generate it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T09:05:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-25T07:58:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d9c5252295218df4cfe64353aa860d7b5c8700ef'/>
<id>d9c5252295218df4cfe64353aa860d7b5c8700ef</id>
<content type='text'>
UAPI headers licensed under GPL are supposed to have exception
"WITH Linux-syscall-note" so that they can be included into non-GPL
user space application code.

The exception note is missing in some UAPI headers.

Some of them slipped in by the treewide conversion commit b24413180f56
("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with
no license"). Just run:

  $ git show --oneline b24413180f56 -- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/

I believe they are not intentional, and should be fixed too.

This patch was generated by the following script:

  git grep -l --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
    -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild |
  while read file
  do
          sed -i -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
          -e '/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
          -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/!{/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/!s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note/g}' $file
  done

After this patch is applied, there are 5 UAPI headers that do not contain
"WITH Linux-syscall-note". They are kept untouched since this exception
applies only to GPL variants.

  $ git grep --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
    -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild
  include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/qemu_fw_cfg.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
  include/uapi/linux/vbox_err.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
UAPI headers licensed under GPL are supposed to have exception
"WITH Linux-syscall-note" so that they can be included into non-GPL
user space application code.

The exception note is missing in some UAPI headers.

Some of them slipped in by the treewide conversion commit b24413180f56
("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with
no license"). Just run:

  $ git show --oneline b24413180f56 -- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/

I believe they are not intentional, and should be fixed too.

This patch was generated by the following script:

  git grep -l --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
    -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild |
  while read file
  do
          sed -i -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
          -e '/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \
          -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/!{/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/!s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note/g}' $file
  done

After this patch is applied, there are 5 UAPI headers that do not contain
"WITH Linux-syscall-note". They are kept untouched since this exception
applies only to GPL variants.

  $ git grep --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \
    -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild
  include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/qemu_fw_cfg.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */
  include/uapi/linux/vbox_err.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
  include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T22:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T22:35:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=39d7530d7494b4e47ba1856e741f513dafd17e3d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - support for chained PMU counters in guests
   - improved SError handling
   - handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
   - allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
   - standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
   - fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
   - selftests ckleanups

  x86:
   - PMU event {white,black}listing
   - ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling
   - fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization),
   - new hypercall to yield to IPI target
   - support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest
   - lots of cleanups and optimizations

  Generic:
   - Some txt-&gt;rST conversions for the documentation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits)
  Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks
  Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst
  Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst
  KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context
  KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter
  kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
  KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap
  KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register
  KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane
  kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers
  KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s
  KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register
  KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state
  arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests
  KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc-&gt;bitmask
  KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value
  KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions
  KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC
  ...
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - support for chained PMU counters in guests
   - improved SError handling
   - handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
   - allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
   - standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
   - fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
   - selftests ckleanups

  x86:
   - PMU event {white,black}listing
   - ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling
   - fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization),
   - new hypercall to yield to IPI target
   - support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest
   - lots of cleanups and optimizations

  Generic:
   - Some txt-&gt;rST conversions for the documentation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits)
  Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks
  Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst
  Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst
  KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context
  KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter
  kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
  KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap
  KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register
  KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane
  kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers
  KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s
  KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register
  KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state
  arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests
  KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc-&gt;bitmask
  KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value
  KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions
  KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e9a83bd2322035ed9d7dcf35753d3f984d76c6a5'/>
<id>e9a83bd2322035ed9d7dcf35753d3f984d76c6a5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dfd437a257924484b144ee750e60affc95562c6d'/>
<id>dfd437a257924484b144ee750e60affc95562c6d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state</title>
<updated>2019-07-05T12:56:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-03T14:27:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=99adb567632b656a4a54a90adb2172cc725b6896'/>
<id>99adb567632b656a4a54a90adb2172cc725b6896</id>
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KVM implements the firmware interface for mitigating cache speculation
vulnerabilities. Guests may use this interface to ensure mitigation is
active.
If we want to migrate such a guest to a host with a different support
level for those workarounds, migration might need to fail, to ensure that
critical guests don't loose their protection.

Introduce a way for userland to save and restore the workarounds state.
On restoring we do checks that make sure we don't downgrade our
mitigation level.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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KVM implements the firmware interface for mitigating cache speculation
vulnerabilities. Guests may use this interface to ensure mitigation is
active.
If we want to migrate such a guest to a host with a different support
level for those workarounds, migration might need to fail, to ensure that
critical guests don't loose their protection.

Introduce a way for userland to save and restore the workarounds state.
On restoring we do checks that make sure we don't downgrade our
mitigation level.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace</title>
<updated>2019-06-25T13:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T18:10:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ca9503fc9e9812aa6258e55d44edb03eb30fc46f'/>
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ARMv8.5 introduces the FRINT series of instructions for rounding floating
point numbers to integers. Provide a capability to userspace in order to
allow applications to determine if the system supports these instructions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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ARMv8.5 introduces the FRINT series of instructions for rounding floating
point numbers to integers. Provide a capability to userspace in order to
allow applications to determine if the system supports these instructions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace</title>
<updated>2019-06-25T13:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T18:10:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1201937491822b61641c1878ebcd16a93aed4540'/>
<id>1201937491822b61641c1878ebcd16a93aed4540</id>
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ARMv8.5 adds new instructions XAFLAG and AXFLAG to translate the
representation of the results of floating point comparisons between the
native ARM format and an alternative format used by some software. Add
a hwcap allowing userspace to determine if they are present, since we
referred to earlier CondM extensions as FLAGM call these extensions
FLAGM2.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
ARMv8.5 adds new instructions XAFLAG and AXFLAG to translate the
representation of the results of floating point comparisons between the
native ARM format and an alternative format used by some software. Add
a hwcap allowing userspace to determine if they are present, since we
referred to earlier CondM extensions as FLAGM call these extensions
FLAGM2.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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