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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/include/uapi, branch v5.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<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>
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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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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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter</title>
<updated>2019-07-20T07:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Hankland</name>
<email>ehankland@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T18:38:18+00:00</published>
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Updates KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER so it can also whitelist or blacklist
fixed counters.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland &lt;ehankland@google.com&gt;
[No need to check padding fields for zero. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Updates KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER so it can also whitelist or blacklist
fixed counters.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland &lt;ehankland@google.com&gt;
[No need to check padding fields for zero. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</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>
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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
  ...
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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
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T13:14:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T13:14:16+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
KVM/arm updates for 5.3

- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve 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
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<pre>
KVM/arm updates for 5.3

- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve 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
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T13:08:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Hankland</name>
<email>ehankland@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T01:25:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=66bb8a065f5aedd4551d8d3fbce582972f65c2e1'/>
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Some events can provide a guest with information about other guests or the
host (e.g. L3 cache stats); providing the capability to restrict access
to a "safe" set of events would limit the potential for the PMU to be used
in any side channel attacks. This change introduces a new VM ioctl that
sets an event filter. If the guest attempts to program a counter for
any blacklisted or non-whitelisted event, the kernel counter won't be
created, so any RDPMC/RDMSR will show 0 instances of that event.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland &lt;ehankland@google.com&gt;
[Lots of changes. All remaining bugs are probably mine. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Some events can provide a guest with information about other guests or the
host (e.g. L3 cache stats); providing the capability to restrict access
to a "safe" set of events would limit the potential for the PMU to be used
in any side channel attacks. This change introduces a new VM ioctl that
sets an event filter. If the guest attempts to program a counter for
any blacklisted or non-whitelisted event, the kernel counter won't be
created, so any RDPMC/RDMSR will show 0 instances of that event.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland &lt;ehankland@google.com&gt;
[Lots of changes. All remaining bugs are probably mine. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T18:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T18:35:38+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Assorted updates to kexec/kdump:

   - Proper kexec support for 4/5-level paging and jumping from a
     5-level to a 4-level paging kernel.

   - Make the EFI support for kexec/kdump more robust

   - Enforce that the GDT is properly aligned instead of getting the
     alignment by chance"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kdump/64: Restrict kdump kernel reservation to &lt;64TB
  x86/kexec/64: Prevent kexec from 5-level paging to a 4-level only kernel
  x86/boot: Add xloadflags bits to check for 5-level paging support
  x86/boot: Make the GDT 8-byte aligned
  x86/kexec: Add the ACPI NVS region to the ident map
  x86/boot: Call get_rsdp_addr() after console_init()
  Revert "x86/boot: Disable RSDP parsing temporarily"
  x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on kexec-ed kernels
  x86/kexec: Add the EFI system tables and ACPI tables to the ident map
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Assorted updates to kexec/kdump:

   - Proper kexec support for 4/5-level paging and jumping from a
     5-level to a 4-level paging kernel.

   - Make the EFI support for kexec/kdump more robust

   - Enforce that the GDT is properly aligned instead of getting the
     alignment by chance"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kdump/64: Restrict kdump kernel reservation to &lt;64TB
  x86/kexec/64: Prevent kexec from 5-level paging to a 4-level only kernel
  x86/boot: Add xloadflags bits to check for 5-level paging support
  x86/boot: Make the GDT 8-byte aligned
  x86/kexec: Add the ACPI NVS region to the ident map
  x86/boot: Call get_rsdp_addr() after console_init()
  Revert "x86/boot: Disable RSDP parsing temporarily"
  x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on kexec-ed kernels
  x86/kexec: Add the EFI system tables and ACPI tables to the ident map
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: nVMX: Stash L1's CR3 in vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 on nested entry w/o EPT</title>
<updated>2019-07-05T11:57:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-07T18:55:34+00:00</published>
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KVM does not have 100% coverage of VMX consistency checks, i.e. some
checks that cause VM-Fail may only be detected by hardware during a
nested VM-Entry.  In such a case, KVM must restore L1's state to the
pre-VM-Enter state as L2's state has already been loaded into KVM's
software model.

L1's CR3 and PDPTRs in particular are loaded from vmcs01.GUEST_*.  But
when EPT is disabled, the associated fields hold KVM's shadow values,
not L1's "real" values.  Fortunately, when EPT is disabled the PDPTRs
come from memory, i.e. are not cached in the VMCS.  Which leaves CR3
as the sole anomaly.

A previously applied workaround to handle CR3 was to force nested early
checks if EPT is disabled:

  commit 2b27924bb1d48 ("KVM: nVMX: always use early vmcs check when EPT
                         is disabled")

Forcing nested early checks is undesirable as doing so adds hundreds of
cycles to every nested VM-Entry.  Rather than take this performance hit,
handle CR3 by overwriting vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 with L1's CR3 during nested
VM-Entry when EPT is disabled *and* nested early checks are disabled.
By stuffing vmcs01.GUEST_CR3, nested_vmx_restore_host_state() will
naturally restore the correct vcpu-&gt;arch.cr3 from vmcs01.GUEST_CR3.

These shenanigans work because nested_vmx_restore_host_state() does a
full kvm_mmu_reset_context(), i.e. unloads the current MMU, which
guarantees vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 will be rewritten with a new shadow CR3
prior to re-entering L1.

vcpu-&gt;arch.root_mmu.root_hpa is set to INVALID_PAGE via:

    nested_vmx_restore_host_state() -&gt;
        kvm_mmu_reset_context() -&gt;
            kvm_mmu_unload() -&gt;
                kvm_mmu_free_roots()

kvm_mmu_unload() has WARN_ON(root_hpa != INVALID_PAGE), i.e. we can bank
on 'root_hpa == INVALID_PAGE' unless the implementation of
kvm_mmu_reset_context() is changed.

On the way into L1, VMCS.GUEST_CR3 is guaranteed to be written (on a
successful entry) via:

    vcpu_enter_guest() -&gt;
        kvm_mmu_reload() -&gt;
            kvm_mmu_load() -&gt;
                kvm_mmu_load_cr3() -&gt;
                    vmx_set_cr3()

Stuff vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 if and only if nested early checks are disabled
as a "late" VM-Fail should never happen win that case (KVM WARNs), and
the conditional write avoids the need to restore the correct GUEST_CR3
when nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw() fails.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20190607185534.24368-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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KVM does not have 100% coverage of VMX consistency checks, i.e. some
checks that cause VM-Fail may only be detected by hardware during a
nested VM-Entry.  In such a case, KVM must restore L1's state to the
pre-VM-Enter state as L2's state has already been loaded into KVM's
software model.

L1's CR3 and PDPTRs in particular are loaded from vmcs01.GUEST_*.  But
when EPT is disabled, the associated fields hold KVM's shadow values,
not L1's "real" values.  Fortunately, when EPT is disabled the PDPTRs
come from memory, i.e. are not cached in the VMCS.  Which leaves CR3
as the sole anomaly.

A previously applied workaround to handle CR3 was to force nested early
checks if EPT is disabled:

  commit 2b27924bb1d48 ("KVM: nVMX: always use early vmcs check when EPT
                         is disabled")

Forcing nested early checks is undesirable as doing so adds hundreds of
cycles to every nested VM-Entry.  Rather than take this performance hit,
handle CR3 by overwriting vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 with L1's CR3 during nested
VM-Entry when EPT is disabled *and* nested early checks are disabled.
By stuffing vmcs01.GUEST_CR3, nested_vmx_restore_host_state() will
naturally restore the correct vcpu-&gt;arch.cr3 from vmcs01.GUEST_CR3.

These shenanigans work because nested_vmx_restore_host_state() does a
full kvm_mmu_reset_context(), i.e. unloads the current MMU, which
guarantees vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 will be rewritten with a new shadow CR3
prior to re-entering L1.

vcpu-&gt;arch.root_mmu.root_hpa is set to INVALID_PAGE via:

    nested_vmx_restore_host_state() -&gt;
        kvm_mmu_reset_context() -&gt;
            kvm_mmu_unload() -&gt;
                kvm_mmu_free_roots()

kvm_mmu_unload() has WARN_ON(root_hpa != INVALID_PAGE), i.e. we can bank
on 'root_hpa == INVALID_PAGE' unless the implementation of
kvm_mmu_reset_context() is changed.

On the way into L1, VMCS.GUEST_CR3 is guaranteed to be written (on a
successful entry) via:

    vcpu_enter_guest() -&gt;
        kvm_mmu_reload() -&gt;
            kvm_mmu_load() -&gt;
                kvm_mmu_load_cr3() -&gt;
                    vmx_set_cr3()

Stuff vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 if and only if nested early checks are disabled
as a "late" VM-Fail should never happen win that case (KVM WARNs), and
the conditional write avoids the need to restore the correct GUEST_CR3
when nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw() fails.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20190607185534.24368-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: X86: Yield to IPI target if necessary</title>
<updated>2019-07-02T16:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpengli@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-11T12:23:48+00:00</published>
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When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of
the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first
preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target
vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liran Alon &lt;liran.alon@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of
the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first
preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target
vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liran Alon &lt;liran.alon@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-06-29T11:39:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-29T11:39:17+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various fixes, most of them related to bugs perf fuzzing found in the
  x86 code"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/regs: Use PERF_REG_EXTENDED_MASK
  perf/x86: Remove pmu-&gt;pebs_no_xmm_regs
  perf/x86: Clean up PEBS_XMM_REGS
  perf/x86/regs: Check reserved bits
  perf/x86: Disable extended registers for non-supported PMUs
  perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value
  perf/core: Fix perf_sample_regs_user() mm check
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various fixes, most of them related to bugs perf fuzzing found in the
  x86 code"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/regs: Use PERF_REG_EXTENDED_MASK
  perf/x86: Remove pmu-&gt;pebs_no_xmm_regs
  perf/x86: Clean up PEBS_XMM_REGS
  perf/x86/regs: Check reserved bits
  perf/x86: Disable extended registers for non-supported PMUs
  perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value
  perf/core: Fix perf_sample_regs_user() mm check
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Add xloadflags bits to check for 5-level paging support</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T05:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-24T07:38:08+00:00</published>
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The current kernel supports 5-level paging mode, and supports dynamically
choosing the paging mode during bootup depending on the kernel image,
hardware and kernel parameter settings. This flexibility brings several
issues to kexec/kdump:

1) Dynamic switching between paging modes requires support in the target
   kernel. This means kexec from a 5-level paging kernel into a kernel
   which does not support mode switching is not possible. So the loader
   needs to be able to analyze the supported paging modes of the kexec
   target kernel.

2) If running on a 5-level paging kernel and the kexec target kernel is a
   4-level paging kernel, the target immage cannot be loaded above the 64TB
   address space limit. But the kexec loader searches for a load area from
   top to bottom which would eventually put the target kernel above 64TB
   when the machine has large enough RAM size. So the loader needs to be
   able to analyze the paging mode of the target kernel to load it at a
   suitable spot in the address space.

Solution:

Add two bits XLF_5LEVEL and XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED:

 - Bit XLF_5LEVEL indicates whether 5-level paging mode switching support
   is available. (Issue #1)

 - Bit XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED indicates whether the kernel was compiled with
   full 5-level paging support (CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y). (Issue #2)

The loader will use these bits to verify whether the target kernel is
suitable to be kexec'ed to from a 5-level paging kernel and to determine
the constraints of the target kernel load address.

The flags will be used by the kernel kexec subsystem and the userspace
kexec tools.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-2-bhe@redhat.com

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The current kernel supports 5-level paging mode, and supports dynamically
choosing the paging mode during bootup depending on the kernel image,
hardware and kernel parameter settings. This flexibility brings several
issues to kexec/kdump:

1) Dynamic switching between paging modes requires support in the target
   kernel. This means kexec from a 5-level paging kernel into a kernel
   which does not support mode switching is not possible. So the loader
   needs to be able to analyze the supported paging modes of the kexec
   target kernel.

2) If running on a 5-level paging kernel and the kexec target kernel is a
   4-level paging kernel, the target immage cannot be loaded above the 64TB
   address space limit. But the kexec loader searches for a load area from
   top to bottom which would eventually put the target kernel above 64TB
   when the machine has large enough RAM size. So the loader needs to be
   able to analyze the paging mode of the target kernel to load it at a
   suitable spot in the address space.

Solution:

Add two bits XLF_5LEVEL and XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED:

 - Bit XLF_5LEVEL indicates whether 5-level paging mode switching support
   is available. (Issue #1)

 - Bit XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED indicates whether the kernel was compiled with
   full 5-level paging support (CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y). (Issue #2)

The loader will use these bits to verify whether the target kernel is
suitable to be kexec'ed to from a 5-level paging kernel and to determine
the constraints of the target kernel load address.

The flags will be used by the kernel kexec subsystem and the userspace
kexec tools.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-2-bhe@redhat.com

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