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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T21:22:05+00:00</published>
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T01:58:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T01:58:18+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code.
     This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which
     has security and general robustness advantages.  (Matt Fleming)

   - Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled.  This is already
     the status quo under other OSs.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable
     attributes for EFI memory mappings.  (Sai Praneeth Prakhya)

   - Various arm64 UEFI enhancements.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - ... various fixes and cleanups.

  The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already,
  because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about
  it - third time's the charm we hope!"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU
  x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode
  x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables
  x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
  efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
  efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a &gt;4 KB granular kernel
  efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel
  efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings
  efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used
  arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections
  efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()
  x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings
  efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled
  efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec
  efi: Add Persistent Memory type name
  efi: Add NV memory attribute
  x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
  x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0
  efivars: Use to_efivar_entry
  efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock
  ...
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code.
     This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which
     has security and general robustness advantages.  (Matt Fleming)

   - Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled.  This is already
     the status quo under other OSs.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable
     attributes for EFI memory mappings.  (Sai Praneeth Prakhya)

   - Various arm64 UEFI enhancements.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - ... various fixes and cleanups.

  The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already,
  because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about
  it - third time's the charm we hope!"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU
  x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode
  x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables
  x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
  efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
  efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a &gt;4 KB granular kernel
  efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel
  efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings
  efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used
  arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections
  efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()
  x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings
  efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled
  efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec
  efi: Add Persistent Memory type name
  efi: Add NV memory attribute
  x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
  x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0
  efivars: Use to_efivar_entry
  efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T15:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Linton</name>
<email>jeremy.linton@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T17:50:32+00:00</published>
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Currently the .rodata section is actually still executable when DEBUG_RODATA
is enabled. This changes that so the .rodata is actually read only, no execute.
It also adds the .rodata section to the mem_init banner.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added vm_struct vmlinux_rodata in map_kernel()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently the .rodata section is actually still executable when DEBUG_RODATA
is enabled. This changes that so the .rodata is actually read only, no execute.
It also adds the .rodata section to the mem_init banner.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added vm_struct vmlinux_rodata in map_kernel()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: add support for building vmlinux as a relocatable PIE binary</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T14:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-26T08:13:44+00:00</published>
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This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, which links the final vmlinux
image with a dynamic relocation section, allowing the early boot code
to perform a relocation to a different virtual address at runtime.

This is a prerequisite for KASLR (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE).

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, which links the final vmlinux
image with a dynamic relocation section, allowing the early boot code
to perform a relocation to a different virtual address at runtime.

This is a prerequisite for KASLR (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE).

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T07:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-17T12:35:58+00:00</published>
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The EFI stub is typically built into the decompressor (x86, ARM) so none
of its symbols are annotated as __init. However, on arm64, the stub is
linked into the kernel proper, and the code is __init annotated at the
section level by prepending all names of SHF_ALLOC sections with '.init'.

This results in section names like .init.rodata.str1.8 (for string literals)
and .init.bss (which is tiny), both of which can be moved into the .init.data
output section.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455712566-16727-6-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The EFI stub is typically built into the decompressor (x86, ARM) so none
of its symbols are annotated as __init. However, on arm64, the stub is
linked into the kernel proper, and the code is __init annotated at the
section level by prepending all names of SHF_ALLOC sections with '.init'.

This results in section names like .init.rodata.str1.8 (for string literals)
and .init.bss (which is tiny), both of which can be moved into the .init.data
output section.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455712566-16727-6-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: introduce KIMAGE_VADDR as the virtual base of the kernel region</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T18:16:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-16T12:52:36+00:00</published>
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This introduces the preprocessor symbol KIMAGE_VADDR which will serve as
the symbolic virtual base of the kernel region, i.e., the kernel's virtual
offset will be KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET. For now, we define it as being
equal to PAGE_OFFSET, but in the future, it will be moved below it once
we move the kernel virtual mapping out of the linear mapping.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This introduces the preprocessor symbol KIMAGE_VADDR which will serve as
the symbolic virtual base of the kernel region, i.e., the kernel's virtual
offset will be KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET. For now, we define it as being
equal to PAGE_OFFSET, but in the future, it will be moved below it once
we move the kernel virtual mapping out of the linear mapping.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: ensure _stext and _etext are page-aligned</title>
<updated>2016-02-16T15:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-25T11:45:11+00:00</published>
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Currently we have separate ALIGN_DEBUG_RO{,_MIN} directives to align
_etext and __init_begin. While we ensure that __init_begin is
page-aligned, we do not provide the same guarantee for _etext. This is
not problematic currently as the alignment of __init_begin is sufficient
to prevent issues when we modify permissions.

Subsequent patches will assume page alignment of segments of the kernel
we wish to map with different permissions. To ensure this, move _etext
after the ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN for the init section. This renders the
prior ALIGN_DEBUG_RO irrelevant, and hence it is removed. Likewise,
upgrade to ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(PAGE_SIZE) for _stext.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we have separate ALIGN_DEBUG_RO{,_MIN} directives to align
_etext and __init_begin. While we ensure that __init_begin is
page-aligned, we do not provide the same guarantee for _etext. This is
not problematic currently as the alignment of __init_begin is sufficient
to prevent issues when we modify permissions.

Subsequent patches will assume page alignment of segments of the kernel
we wish to map with different permissions. To ensure this, move _etext
after the ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN for the init section. This renders the
prior ALIGN_DEBUG_RO irrelevant, and hence it is removed. Likewise,
upgrade to ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN(PAGE_SIZE) for _stext.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T20:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T20:23:33+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Here is the core arm64 queue for 4.5.  As you might expect, the
  Christmas break resulted in a number of patches not making the final
  cut, so 4.6 is likely to be larger than usual.  There's still some
  useful stuff here, however, and it's detailed below.

  The EFI changes have been Reviewed-by Matt and the memblock change got
  an "OK" from akpm.

  Summary:

   - Support for a separate IRQ stack, although we haven't reduced the
     size of our thread stack just yet since we don't have enough data
     to determine a safe value

   - Refactoring of our EFI initialisation and runtime code into
     drivers/firmware/efi/ so that it can be reused by arch/arm/.

   - Ftrace improvements when unwinding in the function graph tracer

   - Document our silicon errata handling process

   - Cache flushing optimisation when mapping executable pages

   - Support for hugetlb mappings using the contiguous hint in the pte"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (45 commits)
  arm64: head.S: use memset to clear BSS
  efi: stub: define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for all architectures
  arm64: entry: remove pointless SPSR mode check
  arm64: mm: move pgd_cache initialisation to pgtable_cache_init
  arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()
  arm64: module: fix relocation of movz instruction with negative immediate
  arm64: traps: address fallout from printk -&gt; pr_* conversion
  arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer
  arm64: pass a task parameter to unwind_frame()
  arm64: ftrace: modify a stack frame in a safe way
  arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack()
  arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit
  arm64: Use PoU cache instr for I/D coherency
  arm64: Defer dcache flush in __cpu_copy_user_page
  arm64: reduce stack use in irq_handler
  arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
  arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata
  arm64: mm: place __cpu_setup in .text
  arm64: cmpxchg: Don't incldue linux/mmdebug.h
  arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Here is the core arm64 queue for 4.5.  As you might expect, the
  Christmas break resulted in a number of patches not making the final
  cut, so 4.6 is likely to be larger than usual.  There's still some
  useful stuff here, however, and it's detailed below.

  The EFI changes have been Reviewed-by Matt and the memblock change got
  an "OK" from akpm.

  Summary:

   - Support for a separate IRQ stack, although we haven't reduced the
     size of our thread stack just yet since we don't have enough data
     to determine a safe value

   - Refactoring of our EFI initialisation and runtime code into
     drivers/firmware/efi/ so that it can be reused by arch/arm/.

   - Ftrace improvements when unwinding in the function graph tracer

   - Document our silicon errata handling process

   - Cache flushing optimisation when mapping executable pages

   - Support for hugetlb mappings using the contiguous hint in the pte"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (45 commits)
  arm64: head.S: use memset to clear BSS
  efi: stub: define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for all architectures
  arm64: entry: remove pointless SPSR mode check
  arm64: mm: move pgd_cache initialisation to pgtable_cache_init
  arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()
  arm64: module: fix relocation of movz instruction with negative immediate
  arm64: traps: address fallout from printk -&gt; pr_* conversion
  arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer
  arm64: pass a task parameter to unwind_frame()
  arm64: ftrace: modify a stack frame in a safe way
  arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack()
  arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit
  arm64: Use PoU cache instr for I/D coherency
  arm64: Defer dcache flush in __cpu_copy_user_page
  arm64: reduce stack use in irq_handler
  arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
  arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata
  arm64: mm: place __cpu_setup in .text
  arm64: cmpxchg: Don't incldue linux/mmdebug.h
  arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T17:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-09T12:44:38+00:00</published>
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Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:

* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
  memory executable.

* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
  bytes larger than necessary.

This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:

* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
  memory executable.

* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
  bytes larger than necessary.

This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Remove redundant padding from linker script</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T17:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-09T12:44:37+00:00</published>
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Currently we place an ALIGN_DEBUG_RO between text and data for the .text
and .init sections, and depending on configuration each of these may
result in up to SECTION_SIZE bytes worth of padding (for
DEBUG_RODATA_ALIGN).

We make no distinction between the text and data in each of these
sections at any point when creating the initial page tables in head.S.
We also make no distinction when modifying the tables; __map_memblock,
fixup_executable, mark_rodata_ro, and fixup_init only work at section
granularity. Thus this padding is unnecessary.

For the spit between init text and data we impose a minimum alignment of
16 bytes, but this is also unnecessary. The init data is output
immediately after the padding before any symbols are defined, so this is
not required to keep a symbol for linker a section array correctly
associated with the data. Any objects within the section will be given
at least their usual alignment regardless.

This patch removes the redundant padding.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we place an ALIGN_DEBUG_RO between text and data for the .text
and .init sections, and depending on configuration each of these may
result in up to SECTION_SIZE bytes worth of padding (for
DEBUG_RODATA_ALIGN).

We make no distinction between the text and data in each of these
sections at any point when creating the initial page tables in head.S.
We also make no distinction when modifying the tables; __map_memblock,
fixup_executable, mark_rodata_ro, and fixup_init only work at section
granularity. Thus this padding is unnecessary.

For the spit between init text and data we impose a minimum alignment of
16 bytes, but this is also unnecessary. The init data is output
immediately after the padding before any symbols are defined, so this is
not required to keep a symbol for linker a section array correctly
associated with the data. Any objects within the section will be given
at least their usual alignment regardless.

This patch removes the redundant padding.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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