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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c, branch linux-4.3.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Cooper</name>
<email>andrew.cooper3@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T09:31:14+00:00</published>
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commit 581b7f158fe0383b492acd1ce3fb4e99d4e57808 upstream.

There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is
supposed to return precisely.  Native returns the full flags, while lguest and
Xen only return the Interrupt Flag, and both have comments by the
implementations stating that only the Interrupt Flag is looked at.  This may
have been true when initially implemented, but no longer is.

To make matters worse, the Xen PVOP leaves the upper bits undefined, making
the BUG_ON() undefined behaviour.  Experimentally, this now trips for 32bit PV
guests on Broadwell hardware.  The BUG_ON() is consistent for an individual
build, but not consistent for all builds.  It has also been a sitting timebomb
since SMAP support was introduced.

Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC
flag.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;lguest@lists.ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433323874-6927-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 581b7f158fe0383b492acd1ce3fb4e99d4e57808 upstream.

There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is
supposed to return precisely.  Native returns the full flags, while lguest and
Xen only return the Interrupt Flag, and both have comments by the
implementations stating that only the Interrupt Flag is looked at.  This may
have been true when initially implemented, but no longer is.

To make matters worse, the Xen PVOP leaves the upper bits undefined, making
the BUG_ON() undefined behaviour.  Experimentally, this now trips for 32bit PV
guests on Broadwell hardware.  The BUG_ON() is consistent for an individual
build, but not consistent for all builds.  It has also been a sitting timebomb
since SMAP support was introduced.

Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC
flag.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;lguest@lists.ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433323874-6927-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Print family/model/stepping in hex</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T07:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-10T19:55:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7c5b190e115a2f7a51a85f261e7d7dca4b4bbe64'/>
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924e101a7ab6 ("x86/debug: Dump family, model, stepping of the
boot CPU") had its good intentions to dump the exact F/M/S as an
aid during debugging sessions but its output can be ambiguous.
Fix that:

-smpboot: CPU0: Intel Core Processor (Broadwell) (fam: 06, model: 47, stepping: 02)
+smpboot: CPU0: Intel Core Processor (Broadwell) (family: 0x6, model: 0x47, stepping: 0x2)

Also, spell out "family".

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441914927-32037-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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924e101a7ab6 ("x86/debug: Dump family, model, stepping of the
boot CPU") had its good intentions to dump the exact F/M/S as an
aid during debugging sessions but its output can be ambiguous.
Fix that:

-smpboot: CPU0: Intel Core Processor (Broadwell) (fam: 06, model: 47, stepping: 02)
+smpboot: CPU0: Intel Core Processor (Broadwell) (family: 0x6, model: 0x47, stepping: 0x2)

Also, spell out "family".

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441914927-32037-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-01T16:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-01T16:41:03+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two changes: a suspend/resume quirk and a new CPUID bit definition"

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpufeature: Add feature bit for Intel's Silicon Debug CPUID bit
  x86/cpu: Restore MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS after resume
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two changes: a suspend/resume quirk and a new CPUID bit definition"

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpufeature: Add feature bit for Intel's Silicon Debug CPUID bit
  x86/cpu: Restore MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS after resume
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function</title>
<updated>2015-08-23T11:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-23T19:14:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=47edb65178cb7056c2eea0b6c41a7d8c84547192'/>
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As of cf991de2f614 ("x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl_safe() a
function"), wrmsrl_safe is a function, but wrmsrl is still a
macro.  The wrmsrl macro performs invalid shifts if the value
argument is 32 bits. This makes it unnecessarily awkward to
write code that puts an unsigned long into an MSR.

To make this work, syscall_init needs tweaking to stop passing
a function pointer to wrmsrl.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&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: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/690f0c629a1085d054e2d1ef3da073cfb3f7db92.1437678821.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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As of cf991de2f614 ("x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl_safe() a
function"), wrmsrl_safe is a function, but wrmsrl is still a
macro.  The wrmsrl macro performs invalid shifts if the value
argument is 32 bits. This makes it unnecessarily awkward to
write code that puts an unsigned long into an MSR.

To make this work, syscall_init needs tweaking to stop passing
a function pointer to wrmsrl.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&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: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/690f0c629a1085d054e2d1ef3da073cfb3f7db92.1437678821.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous</title>
<updated>2015-07-31T08:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-30T21:31:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc'/>
<id>37868fe113ff2ba814b3b4eb12df214df555f8dc</id>
<content type='text'>
modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize
threads.  Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all
threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications.

This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded
programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that
care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place.

This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize
threads.  Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all
threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications.

This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded
programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that
care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place.

This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Restore MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS after resume</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T05:51:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>labbott@fedoraproject.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T21:47:58+00:00</published>
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MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS is lost after suspend/resume:

	x86_energy_perf_policy -r before

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

	after

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000000
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

Resulting in inconsistent energy policy settings across CPUs.

This register is set via init_intel() at bootup. During resume,
the secondary CPUs are brought online again and init_intel() is
callled which re-initializes the register. The boot CPU however
never reinitializes the register.

Add a syscore callback to reinitialize the register for the boot CPU.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&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/1437428878-4105-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS is lost after suspend/resume:

	x86_energy_perf_policy -r before

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

	after

	cpu0: 0x0000000000000000
	cpu1: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu2: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu3: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu4: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu5: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu6: 0x0000000000000006
	cpu7: 0x0000000000000006

Resulting in inconsistent energy policy settings across CPUs.

This register is set via init_intel() at bootup. During resume,
the secondary CPUs are brought online again and init_intel() is
callled which re-initializes the register. The boot CPU however
never reinitializes the register.

Add a syscore callback to reinitialize the register for the boot CPU.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&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/1437428878-4105-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Fix FPU related boot regression when CPUID masking BIOS feature is enabled</title>
<updated>2015-06-30T05:22:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-27T08:25:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=db52ef74b35dcb91fd154fa52c618bdd1b90e28e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Mike Galbraith reported:

  " My i7-4790 box is having one hell of a time with this merge
    window, dead in the water.

    BIOS setting "Limit CPUID Maximum" upsets new fpu code
    mightily. "

It turns out that Linux does a double workaround here, as per:

  066941bd4eeb ("x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs")

it undoes the BIOS workaround - but as a side effect the CPUID
state is not completely constant during early init anymore,
and the new FPU init code did not take this into account.

So what happened is that the xstate init code did not have full
CPUID available, which broke subsequent attempts to use xstate
features.

Fix this by ordering the early FPU init code to after we've
stabilized the CPUID state.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150627082514.GA10894@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mike Galbraith reported:

  " My i7-4790 box is having one hell of a time with this merge
    window, dead in the water.

    BIOS setting "Limit CPUID Maximum" upsets new fpu code
    mightily. "

It turns out that Linux does a double workaround here, as per:

  066941bd4eeb ("x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs")

it undoes the BIOS workaround - but as a side effect the CPUID
state is not completely constant during early init anymore,
and the new FPU init code did not take this into account.

So what happened is that the xstate init code did not have full
CPUID available, which broke subsequent attempts to use xstate
features.

Fix this by ordering the early FPU init code to after we've
stabilized the CPUID state.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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: Mike Galbraith &lt;umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150627082514.GA10894@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</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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<pre>
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()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e75c73ad64478c12b3a44b86a3e7f62a4f65b93e'/>
<id>e75c73ad64478c12b3a44b86a3e7f62a4f65b93e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag</title>
<updated>2015-06-09T10:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-07T18:37:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8c3641e957a948f41f0174290096ed7a3b95e703'/>
<id>8c3641e957a948f41f0174290096ed7a3b95e703</id>
<content type='text'>
MPX has the _potential_ to cause some issues.  Say part of your
init system tried to protect one of its components from buffer
overflows with MPX.  If there were a false positive, it's
possible that MPX could keep a system from booting.

MPX could also potentially cause performance issues since it is
present in hot paths like the unmap path.

Allow it to be disabled at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&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/20150607183702.2E8B77AB@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
MPX has the _potential_ to cause some issues.  Say part of your
init system tried to protect one of its components from buffer
overflows with MPX.  If there were a false positive, it's
possible that MPX could keep a system from booting.

MPX could also potentially cause performance issues since it is
present in hot paths like the unmap path.

Allow it to be disabled at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&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/20150607183702.2E8B77AB@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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