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<title>x86/resctl: fix scheduler confusion with 'current'</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T19:48:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T21:06:29+00:00</published>
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The implementation of 'current' on x86 is very intentionally special: it
is a very common thing to look up, and it uses 'this_cpu_read_stable()'
to get the current thread pointer efficiently from per-cpu storage.

And the keyword in there is 'stable': the current thread pointer never
changes as far as a single thread is concerned.  Even if when a thread
is preempted, or moved to another CPU, or even across an explicit call
'schedule()' that thread will still have the same value for 'current'.

It is, after all, the kernel base pointer to thread-local storage.
That's why it's stable to begin with, but it's also why it's important
enough that we have that special 'this_cpu_read_stable()' access for it.

So this is all done very intentionally to allow the compiler to treat
'current' as a value that never visibly changes, so that the compiler
can do CSE and combine multiple different 'current' accesses into one.

However, there is obviously one very special situation when the
currently running thread does actually change: inside the scheduler
itself.

So the scheduler code paths are special, and do not have a 'current'
thread at all.  Instead there are _two_ threads: the previous and the
next thread - typically called 'prev' and 'next' (or prev_p/next_p)
internally.

So this is all actually quite straightforward and simple, and not all
that complicated.

Except for when you then have special code that is run in scheduler
context, that code then has to be aware that 'current' isn't really a
valid thing.  Did you mean 'prev'? Did you mean 'next'?

In fact, even if then look at the code, and you use 'current' after the
new value has been assigned to the percpu variable, we have explicitly
told the compiler that 'current' is magical and always stable.  So the
compiler is quite free to use an older (or newer) value of 'current',
and the actual assignment to the percpu storage is not relevant even if
it might look that way.

Which is exactly what happened in the resctl code, that blithely used
'current' in '__resctrl_sched_in()' when it really wanted the new
process state (as implied by the name: we're scheduling 'into' that new
resctl state).  And clang would end up just using the old thread pointer
value at least in some configurations.

This could have happened with gcc too, and purely depends on random
compiler details.  Clang just seems to have been more aggressive about
moving the read of the per-cpu current_task pointer around.

The fix is trivial: just make the resctl code adhere to the scheduler
rules of using the prev/next thread pointer explicitly, instead of using
'current' in a situation where it just wasn't valid.

That same code is then also used outside of the scheduler context (when
a thread resctl state is explicitly changed), and then we will just pass
in 'current' as that pointer, of course.  There is no ambiguity in that
case.

The fix may be trivial, but noticing and figuring out what went wrong
was not.  The credit for that goes to Stephane Eranian.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230303231133.1486085-1-eranian@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.2.01.0908011214330.3304@localhost.localdomain/
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The implementation of 'current' on x86 is very intentionally special: it
is a very common thing to look up, and it uses 'this_cpu_read_stable()'
to get the current thread pointer efficiently from per-cpu storage.

And the keyword in there is 'stable': the current thread pointer never
changes as far as a single thread is concerned.  Even if when a thread
is preempted, or moved to another CPU, or even across an explicit call
'schedule()' that thread will still have the same value for 'current'.

It is, after all, the kernel base pointer to thread-local storage.
That's why it's stable to begin with, but it's also why it's important
enough that we have that special 'this_cpu_read_stable()' access for it.

So this is all done very intentionally to allow the compiler to treat
'current' as a value that never visibly changes, so that the compiler
can do CSE and combine multiple different 'current' accesses into one.

However, there is obviously one very special situation when the
currently running thread does actually change: inside the scheduler
itself.

So the scheduler code paths are special, and do not have a 'current'
thread at all.  Instead there are _two_ threads: the previous and the
next thread - typically called 'prev' and 'next' (or prev_p/next_p)
internally.

So this is all actually quite straightforward and simple, and not all
that complicated.

Except for when you then have special code that is run in scheduler
context, that code then has to be aware that 'current' isn't really a
valid thing.  Did you mean 'prev'? Did you mean 'next'?

In fact, even if then look at the code, and you use 'current' after the
new value has been assigned to the percpu variable, we have explicitly
told the compiler that 'current' is magical and always stable.  So the
compiler is quite free to use an older (or newer) value of 'current',
and the actual assignment to the percpu storage is not relevant even if
it might look that way.

Which is exactly what happened in the resctl code, that blithely used
'current' in '__resctrl_sched_in()' when it really wanted the new
process state (as implied by the name: we're scheduling 'into' that new
resctl state).  And clang would end up just using the old thread pointer
value at least in some configurations.

This could have happened with gcc too, and purely depends on random
compiler details.  Clang just seems to have been more aggressive about
moving the read of the per-cpu current_task pointer around.

The fix is trivial: just make the resctl code adhere to the scheduler
rules of using the prev/next thread pointer explicitly, instead of using
'current' in a situation where it just wasn't valid.

That same code is then also used outside of the scheduler context (when
a thread resctl state is explicitly changed), and then we will just pass
in 'current' as that pointer, of course.  There is no ambiguity in that
case.

The fix may be trivial, but noticing and figuring out what went wrong
was not.  The credit for that goes to Stephane Eranian.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230303231133.1486085-1-eranian@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.2.01.0908011214330.3304@localhost.localdomain/
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Switch to cpu_feature_enabled() for X86_FEATURE_XENPV</title>
<updated>2022-11-22T15:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-04T07:27:01+00:00</published>
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Convert the remaining cases of static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) and
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) to use cpu_feature_enabled(), allowing
more efficient code in case the kernel is configured without
CONFIG_XEN_PV.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104072701.20283-6-jgross@suse.com
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Convert the remaining cases of static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) and
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV) to use cpu_feature_enabled(), allowing
more efficient code in case the kernel is configured without
CONFIG_XEN_PV.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104072701.20283-6-jgross@suse.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/percpu: Move irq_stack variables next to current_task</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:11:05+00:00</published>
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Further extend struct pcpu_hot with the hard and soft irq stack
pointers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.599170752@infradead.org
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Further extend struct pcpu_hot with the hard and soft irq stack
pointers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.599170752@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/percpu: Move current_top_of_stack next to current_task</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:11:04+00:00</published>
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Extend the struct pcpu_hot cacheline with current_top_of_stack;
another very frequently used value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.493038635@infradead.org
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Extend the struct pcpu_hot cacheline with current_top_of_stack;
another very frequently used value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.493038635@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Put hot per CPU variables into a struct</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:11:01+00:00</published>
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The layout of per-cpu variables is at the mercy of the compiler. This
can lead to random performance fluctuations from build to build.

Create a structure to hold some of the hottest per-cpu variables,
starting with current_task.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.179707194@infradead.org
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The layout of per-cpu variables is at the mercy of the compiler. This
can lead to random performance fluctuations from build to build.

Create a structure to hold some of the hottest per-cpu variables,
starting with current_task.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.179707194@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:04:07+00:00</published>
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When instrumenting functions, KMSAN obtains the per-task state (mostly
pointers to metadata for function arguments and return values) once per
function at its beginning, using the `current` pointer.

Every time the instrumented function calls another function, this state
(`struct kmsan_context_state`) is updated with shadow/origin data of the
passed and returned values.

When `current` changes in the low-level arch code, instrumented code can
not notice that, and will still refer to the old state, possibly
corrupting it or using stale data.  This may result in false positive
reports.

To deal with that, we need to apply __no_kmsan_checks to the functions
performing context switching - this will result in skipping all KMSAN
shadow checks and marking newly created values as initialized, preventing
all false positive reports in those functions.  False negatives are still
possible, but we expect them to be rare and impersistent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-34-glider@google.com
Suggested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When instrumenting functions, KMSAN obtains the per-task state (mostly
pointers to metadata for function arguments and return values) once per
function at its beginning, using the `current` pointer.

Every time the instrumented function calls another function, this state
(`struct kmsan_context_state`) is updated with shadow/origin data of the
passed and returned values.

When `current` changes in the low-level arch code, instrumented code can
not notice that, and will still refer to the old state, possibly
corrupting it or using stale data.  This may result in false positive
reports.

To deal with that, we need to apply __no_kmsan_checks to the functions
performing context switching - this will result in skipping all KMSAN
shadow checks and marking newly created values as initialized, preventing
all false positive reports in those functions.  False negatives are still
possible, but we expect them to be rare and impersistent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-34-glider@google.com
Suggested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/prctl: Remove pointless task argument</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T10:56:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-12T12:04:08+00:00</published>
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The functions invoked via do_arch_prctl_common() can only operate on
the current task and none of these function uses the task argument.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lev7vtxj.ffs@tglx
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The functions invoked via do_arch_prctl_common() can only operate on
the current task and none of these function uses the task argument.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lev7vtxj.ffs@tglx
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove toolchain check for X32 ABI capability</title>
<updated>2022-03-15T09:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T19:48:41+00:00</published>
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Commit 0bf6276392e9 ("x32: Warn and disable rather than error if
binutils too old") added a small test in arch/x86/Makefile because
binutils 2.22 or newer is needed to properly support elf32-x86-64. This
check is no longer necessary, as the minimum supported version of
binutils is 2.23, which is enforced at configuration time with
scripts/min-tool-version.sh.

Remove this check and replace all uses of CONFIG_X86_X32 with
CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI, as two symbols are no longer necessary.

[nathan: Rebase, fix up a few places where CONFIG_X86_X32 was still
         used, and simplify commit message to satisfy -tip requirements]

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314194842.3452-2-nathan@kernel.org
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Commit 0bf6276392e9 ("x32: Warn and disable rather than error if
binutils too old") added a small test in arch/x86/Makefile because
binutils 2.22 or newer is needed to properly support elf32-x86-64. This
check is no longer necessary, as the minimum supported version of
binutils is 2.23, which is enforced at configuration time with
scripts/min-tool-version.sh.

Remove this check and replace all uses of CONFIG_X86_X32 with
CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI, as two symbols are no longer necessary.

[nathan: Rebase, fix up a few places where CONFIG_X86_X32 was still
         used, and simplify commit message to satisfy -tip requirements]

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314194842.3452-2-nathan@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Move context switch and exit to user inlines into sched.h</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T13:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-15T01:16:20+00:00</published>
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internal.h is a kitchen sink which needs to get out of the way to prepare
for the upcoming changes.

Move the context switch and exit to user inlines into a separate header,
which is all that code needs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211015011539.349132461@linutronix.de
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internal.h is a kitchen sink which needs to get out of the way to prepare
for the upcoming changes.

Move the context switch and exit to user inlines into a separate header,
which is all that code needs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211015011539.349132461@linutronix.de
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