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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>x86/setup: Fix low identity map for &gt;= 2GB kernel range</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Mazur</name>
<email>krzysiek@podlesie.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T13:18:36+00:00</published>
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commit 68accac392d859d24adcf1be3a90e41f978bd54c upstream.

The commit f5f3497cad8c extended the low identity mapping. However, if
the kernel uses more than 2 GB (VMSPLIT_2G_OPT or VMSPLIT_1G memory
split), the normal memory mapping is overwritten by the low identity
mapping causing a crash. To avoid overwritting, limit the low identity
map to cover only memory before kernel range (PAGE_OFFSET).

Fixes: f5f3497cad8c "x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur &lt;krzysiek@podlesie.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446815916-22105-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net
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 68accac392d859d24adcf1be3a90e41f978bd54c upstream.

The commit f5f3497cad8c extended the low identity mapping. However, if
the kernel uses more than 2 GB (VMSPLIT_2G_OPT or VMSPLIT_1G memory
split), the normal memory mapping is overwritten by the low identity
mapping causing a crash. To avoid overwritting, limit the low identity
map to cover only memory before kernel range (PAGE_OFFSET).

Fixes: f5f3497cad8c "x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur &lt;krzysiek@podlesie.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446815916-22105-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net
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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range</title>
<updated>2015-10-16T09:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-14T11:30:45+00:00</published>
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On 32-bit systems, the initial_page_table is reused by
efi_call_phys_prolog as an identity map to call
SetVirtualAddressMap.  efi_call_phys_prolog takes care of
converting the current CPU's GDT to a physical address too.

For PAE kernels the identity mapping is achieved by aliasing the
first PDPE for the kernel memory mapping into the first PDPE
of initial_page_table.  This makes the EFI stub's trick "just work".

However, for non-PAE kernels there is no guarantee that the identity
mapping in the initial_page_table extends as far as the GDT; in this
case, accesses to the GDT will cause a page fault (which quickly becomes
a triple fault).  Fix this by copying the kernel mappings from
swapper_pg_dir to initial_page_table twice, both at PAGE_OFFSET and at
identity mapping.

For some reason, this is only reproducible with QEMU's dynamic translation
mode, and not for example with KVM.  However, even under KVM one can clearly
see that the page table is bogus:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -pflash OVMF.fd -M q35 vmlinuz0 -s -S -daemonize
    $ gdb
    (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
    (gdb) hb *0x02858f6f
    Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x2858f6f
    (gdb) c
    Continuing.

    Breakpoint 1, 0x02858f6f in ?? ()
    (gdb) monitor info registers
    ...
    GDT=     0724e000 000000ff
    IDT=     fffbb000 000007ff
    CR0=0005003b CR2=ff896000 CR3=032b7000 CR4=00000690
    ...

The page directory is sane:

    (gdb) x/4wx 0x32b7000
    0x32b7000:	0x03398063	0x03399063	0x0339a063	0x0339b063
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3398000
    0x3398000:	0x00000163	0x00001163	0x00002163	0x00003163
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3399000
    0x3399000:	0x00400003	0x00401003	0x00402003	0x00403003

but our particular page directory entry is empty:

    (gdb) x/1wx 0x32b7000 + (0x724e000 &gt;&gt; 22) * 4
    0x32b7070:	0x00000000

[ It appears that you can skate past this issue if you don't receive
  any interrupts while the bogus GDT pointer is loaded, or if you avoid
  reloading the segment registers in general.

  Andy Lutomirski provides some additional insight:

   "AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT
    descriptor to point to unmapped memory.  Any attempt to use them
    (segment loads, interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory
    as if the access came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will
    generate a valid page fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or
    LDT."

  Up until commit 23a0d4e8fa6d ("efi: Disable interrupts around EFI
  calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls") interrupts were disabled
  around the prolog and epilog calls, and the functional GDT was
  re-installed before interrupts were re-enabled.

  Which explains why no one has hit this issue until now. ]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ Updated changelog. ]
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On 32-bit systems, the initial_page_table is reused by
efi_call_phys_prolog as an identity map to call
SetVirtualAddressMap.  efi_call_phys_prolog takes care of
converting the current CPU's GDT to a physical address too.

For PAE kernels the identity mapping is achieved by aliasing the
first PDPE for the kernel memory mapping into the first PDPE
of initial_page_table.  This makes the EFI stub's trick "just work".

However, for non-PAE kernels there is no guarantee that the identity
mapping in the initial_page_table extends as far as the GDT; in this
case, accesses to the GDT will cause a page fault (which quickly becomes
a triple fault).  Fix this by copying the kernel mappings from
swapper_pg_dir to initial_page_table twice, both at PAGE_OFFSET and at
identity mapping.

For some reason, this is only reproducible with QEMU's dynamic translation
mode, and not for example with KVM.  However, even under KVM one can clearly
see that the page table is bogus:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -pflash OVMF.fd -M q35 vmlinuz0 -s -S -daemonize
    $ gdb
    (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
    (gdb) hb *0x02858f6f
    Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x2858f6f
    (gdb) c
    Continuing.

    Breakpoint 1, 0x02858f6f in ?? ()
    (gdb) monitor info registers
    ...
    GDT=     0724e000 000000ff
    IDT=     fffbb000 000007ff
    CR0=0005003b CR2=ff896000 CR3=032b7000 CR4=00000690
    ...

The page directory is sane:

    (gdb) x/4wx 0x32b7000
    0x32b7000:	0x03398063	0x03399063	0x0339a063	0x0339b063
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3398000
    0x3398000:	0x00000163	0x00001163	0x00002163	0x00003163
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3399000
    0x3399000:	0x00400003	0x00401003	0x00402003	0x00403003

but our particular page directory entry is empty:

    (gdb) x/1wx 0x32b7000 + (0x724e000 &gt;&gt; 22) * 4
    0x32b7070:	0x00000000

[ It appears that you can skate past this issue if you don't receive
  any interrupts while the bogus GDT pointer is loaded, or if you avoid
  reloading the segment registers in general.

  Andy Lutomirski provides some additional insight:

   "AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT
    descriptor to point to unmapped memory.  Any attempt to use them
    (segment loads, interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory
    as if the access came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will
    generate a valid page fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or
    LDT."

  Up until commit 23a0d4e8fa6d ("efi: Disable interrupts around EFI
  calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls") interrupts were disabled
  around the prolog and epilog calls, and the functional GDT was
  re-installed before interrupts were re-enabled.

  Which explains why no one has hit this issue until now. ]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ Updated changelog. ]
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</content>
</entry>
<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>x86: use generic early mem copy</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Salter</name>
<email>msalter@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T22:03:07+00:00</published>
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The early_ioremap library now has a generic copy_from_early_mem()
function.  Use the generic copy function for x86 relocate_initrd().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove MAX_MAP_CHUNK define, per Yinghai Lu]
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.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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The early_ioremap library now has a generic copy_from_early_mem()
function.  Use the generic copy function for x86 relocate_initrd().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove MAX_MAP_CHUNK define, per Yinghai Lu]
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T08:55:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Pisati</name>
<email>p.pisati@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T16:23:50+00:00</published>
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The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.

bloat-o-meter output:

  add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  i386_start_kernel                            128     119      -9
  setup_arch                                  1421    1375     -46

Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati &lt;p.pisati@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.

bloat-o-meter output:

  add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  i386_start_kernel                            128     119      -9
  setup_arch                                  1421    1375     -46

Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati &lt;p.pisati@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T15:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-04T15:58:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two FPU rewrite related fixes.  This addresses all known x86
  regressions at this stage.  Also some other misc fixes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu: Fix boot crash in the early FPU code
  x86/asm/entry/64: Update path names
  x86/fpu: Fix FPU related boot regression when CPUID masking BIOS feature is enabled
  x86/boot/setup: Clean up the e820_reserve_setup_data() code
  x86/kaslr: Fix typo in the KASLR_FLAG documentation
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two FPU rewrite related fixes.  This addresses all known x86
  regressions at this stage.  Also some other misc fixes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu: Fix boot crash in the early FPU code
  x86/asm/entry/64: Update path names
  x86/fpu: Fix FPU related boot regression when CPUID masking BIOS feature is enabled
  x86/boot/setup: Clean up the e820_reserve_setup_data() code
  x86/kaslr: Fix typo in the KASLR_FLAG documentation
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/urgent</title>
<updated>2015-06-30T05:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-30T05:57:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dc5fb575df9cdd34ac12bf7a814c9beae0a7ca9b'/>
<id>dc5fb575df9cdd34ac12bf7a814c9beae0a7ca9b</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge branch that got ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Merge branch that got ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T00:49:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:15+00:00</published>
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UEFI GetMemoryMap() uses a new attribute bit to mark mirrored memory
address ranges.  See UEFI 2.5 spec pages 157-158:

  http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf

On EFI enabled systems scan the memory map and tell memblock about any
mirrored ranges.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xiexiuqi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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UEFI GetMemoryMap() uses a new attribute bit to mark mirrored memory
address ranges.  See UEFI 2.5 spec pages 157-158:

  http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf

On EFI enabled systems scan the memory map and tell memblock about any
mirrored ranges.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xiexiuqi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T21:07:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T21:07:26+00:00</published>
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Pull livepatching fixes from Jiri Kosina:

 - symbol lookup locking fix, from Miroslav Benes

 - error handling improvements in case of failure of the module coming
   notifier, from Minfei Huang

 - we were too pessimistic when kASLR has been enabled on x86 and were
   dropping address hints on the floor unnecessarily in such case.  Fix
   from Jiri Kosina

 - a few other small fixes and cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls
  livepatch: annotate klp_init() with __init
  livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers
  livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
  livepatch: Prevent patch inconsistencies if the coming module notifier fails
  livepatch: match return value to function signature
  x86: kaslr: fix build due to missing ALIGN definition
  livepatch: x86: make kASLR logic more accurate
  x86: introduce kaslr_offset()
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Pull livepatching fixes from Jiri Kosina:

 - symbol lookup locking fix, from Miroslav Benes

 - error handling improvements in case of failure of the module coming
   notifier, from Minfei Huang

 - we were too pessimistic when kASLR has been enabled on x86 and were
   dropping address hints on the floor unnecessarily in such case.  Fix
   from Jiri Kosina

 - a few other small fixes and cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls
  livepatch: annotate klp_init() with __init
  livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers
  livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
  livepatch: Prevent patch inconsistencies if the coming module notifier fails
  livepatch: match return value to function signature
  x86: kaslr: fix build due to missing ALIGN definition
  livepatch: x86: make kASLR logic more accurate
  x86: introduce kaslr_offset()
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<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>
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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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