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<entry>
<title>kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code</title>
<updated>2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Young</name>
<email>dyoung@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T22:38:55+00:00</published>
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There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
 kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Tesarik &lt;ptesarik@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&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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There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
 kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Tesarik &lt;ptesarik@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&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>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-01T17:33:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-01T17:33:31+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Intel Atom platform updates.  (Andy Shevchenko)

   - modularity fixlets.  (Paul Gortmaker)

   - x86 platform clockevents driver updates for lguest, uv and Xen.
     (Viresh Kumar)

   - Microsoft Hyper-V TSC fixlet.  (Vitaly Kuznetsov)"

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/platform: Make atom/pmc_atom.c explicitly non-modular
  x86/hyperv: Mark the Hyper-V TSC as unstable
  x86/xen/time: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/uv/time: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/lguest/timer: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Use proper constants for irq polarity
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Make intel_mid_pci_ops static
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Propagate actual return code
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Work around for IRQ0 assignment
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Add Intel Tangier PCI id
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Source cleanup
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Remove NULL pointer checks for pci_dev_put()
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Check return value of debugfs_create properly
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Move to dedicated folder
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Move the PMC-Atom code to arch/x86/platform/atom
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Add Cherrytrail PMC interface
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Supply register mappings via PMC object
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Print index of device in loop
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Export accessors to PMC registers
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<pre>
Pull x86 core platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Intel Atom platform updates.  (Andy Shevchenko)

   - modularity fixlets.  (Paul Gortmaker)

   - x86 platform clockevents driver updates for lguest, uv and Xen.
     (Viresh Kumar)

   - Microsoft Hyper-V TSC fixlet.  (Vitaly Kuznetsov)"

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/platform: Make atom/pmc_atom.c explicitly non-modular
  x86/hyperv: Mark the Hyper-V TSC as unstable
  x86/xen/time: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/uv/time: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/lguest/timer: Migrate to new set-state interface
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Use proper constants for irq polarity
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Make intel_mid_pci_ops static
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Propagate actual return code
  x86/pci/intel_mid_pci: Work around for IRQ0 assignment
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Add Intel Tangier PCI id
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Source cleanup
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Remove NULL pointer checks for pci_dev_put()
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Check return value of debugfs_create properly
  x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Move to dedicated folder
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Move the PMC-Atom code to arch/x86/platform/atom
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Add Cherrytrail PMC interface
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Supply register mappings via PMC object
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Print index of device in loop
  x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Export accessors to PMC registers
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option</title>
<updated>2015-08-19T04:34:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T04:34:34+00:00</published>
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We currently register a platform device for e820 type-12 memory and
register a nvdimm bus beneath it.  Registering the platform device
triggers the device-core machinery to probe for a driver, but that
search currently comes up empty.  Building the nvdimm-bus registration
into the e820_pmem platform device registration in this way forces
libnvdimm to be built-in.  Instead, convert the built-in portion of
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY to simply register a platform device and move the
rest of the logic to the driver for e820_pmem, for the following
reasons:

1/ Letting e820_pmem support be a module allows building and testing
   libnvdimm.ko changes without rebooting

2/ All the normal policy around modules can be applied to e820_pmem
   (unbind to disable and/or blacklisting the module from loading by
   default)

3/ Moving the driver to a generic location and converting it to scan
   "iomem_resource" rather than "e820.map" means any other architecture can
   take advantage of this simple nvdimm resource discovery mechanism by
   registering a resource named "Persistent Memory (legacy)"

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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We currently register a platform device for e820 type-12 memory and
register a nvdimm bus beneath it.  Registering the platform device
triggers the device-core machinery to probe for a driver, but that
search currently comes up empty.  Building the nvdimm-bus registration
into the e820_pmem platform device registration in this way forces
libnvdimm to be built-in.  Instead, convert the built-in portion of
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY to simply register a platform device and move the
rest of the logic to the driver for e820_pmem, for the following
reasons:

1/ Letting e820_pmem support be a module allows building and testing
   libnvdimm.ko changes without rebooting

2/ All the normal policy around modules can be applied to e820_pmem
   (unbind to disable and/or blacklisting the module from loading by
   default)

3/ Moving the driver to a generic location and converting it to scan
   "iomem_resource" rather than "e820.map" means any other architecture can
   take advantage of this simple nvdimm resource discovery mechanism by
   registering a resource named "Persistent Memory (legacy)"

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt() optional</title>
<updated>2015-07-31T11:30:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-30T21:31:34+00:00</published>
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The modify_ldt syscall exposes a large attack surface and is
unnecessary for modern userspace.  Make it optional.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: security@kernel.org &lt;security@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a605166a771c343fd64802dece77a903507333bd.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Made MATH_EMULATION dependent on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The modify_ldt syscall exposes a large attack surface and is
unnecessary for modern userspace.  Make it optional.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: security@kernel.org &lt;security@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a605166a771c343fd64802dece77a903507333bd.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Made MATH_EMULATION dependent on MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/platform/iosf_mbi: Move to dedicated folder</title>
<updated>2015-07-16T15:48:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-08T14:45:05+00:00</published>
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Move the driver to arch/x86/platform/intel since it is not a core
kernel code and it is related to many Intel SoCs from different
groups: Atom, MID, etc.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David E . Box &lt;david.e.box@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436366709-17683-2-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Move the driver to arch/x86/platform/intel since it is not a core
kernel code and it is related to many Intel SoCs from different
groups: Atom, MID, etc.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David E . Box &lt;david.e.box@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436366709-17683-2-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/platform/intel/pmc_atom: Move the PMC-Atom code to arch/x86/platform/atom</title>
<updated>2015-07-06T16:39:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T14:29:04+00:00</published>
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This is specific driver for Intel Atom SoCs like BayTrail and
Braswell. Let's move it to dedicated folder and alleviate a
arch/x86/kernel burden.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aubrey Li &lt;aubrey.li@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar P Mahesh &lt;mahesh.kumar.p@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436192944-56496-6-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This is specific driver for Intel Atom SoCs like BayTrail and
Braswell. Let's move it to dedicated folder and alleviate a
arch/x86/kernel burden.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aubrey Li &lt;aubrey.li@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar P Mahesh &lt;mahesh.kumar.p@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436192944-56496-6-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/compat: Move copy_siginfo_*_user32() to signal_compat.c</title>
<updated>2015-07-06T13:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-22T11:55:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c0bfd26e136cafc2b23c16225b4d7b1e14de81c1'/>
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copy_siginfo_to_user32() and copy_siginfo_from_user32() are used
by both the 32-bit compat and x32 ABIs.  Move them to
signal_compat.c.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434974121-32575-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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copy_siginfo_to_user32() and copy_siginfo_from_user32() are used
by both the 32-bit compat and x32 ABIs.  Move them to
signal_compat.c.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434974121-32575-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d70b3ef54ceaf1c7c92209f5a662a670d04cbed9'/>
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/entry: Move the vsyscall code to arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/</title>
<updated>2015-06-04T05:37:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T16:41:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=00398a0018d1334fedabfeaabd0fa563121de612'/>
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<content type='text'>
The vsyscall code is entry code too, so move it to arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/.

Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The vsyscall code is entry code too, so move it to arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/.

Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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