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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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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>
<entry>
<title>stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T01:18:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-23T20:06:00+00:00</published>
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This has nothing to do with random.c and everything to do with stack
protectors. Yes, it uses randomness. But many things use randomness.
random.h and random.c are concerned with the generation of randomness,
not with each and every use. So move this function into the more
specific stackprotector.h file where it belongs.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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This has nothing to do with random.c and everything to do with stack
protectors. Yes, it uses randomness. But many things use randomness.
random.h and random.c are concerned with the generation of randomness,
not with each and every use. So move this function into the more
specific stackprotector.h file where it belongs.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/percpu: Move cpu_number next to current_task</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:41:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:11:03+00:00</published>
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Also add cpu_number to the pcpu_hot structure, it is often referenced
and this cacheline is there.

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/20220915111145.387678283@infradead.org
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Also add cpu_number to the pcpu_hot structure, it is often referenced
and this cacheline is there.

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/20220915111145.387678283@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Get rid of redundant switch_to_new_gdt() invocations</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T14:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T11:10:42+00:00</published>
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The only place where switch_to_new_gdt() is required is early boot to
switch from the early GDT to the direct GDT. Any other invocation is
completely redundant because it does not change anything.

Secondary CPUs come out of the ASM code with GDT and GSBASE correctly set
up. The same is true for XEN_PV.

Remove all the voodoo invocations which are left overs from the ancient
past, rename the function to switch_gdt_and_percpu_base() and mark it init.

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/20220915111143.198076128@infradead.org
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<pre>
The only place where switch_to_new_gdt() is required is early boot to
switch from the early GDT to the direct GDT. Any other invocation is
completely redundant because it does not change anything.

Secondary CPUs come out of the ASM code with GDT and GSBASE correctly set
up. The same is true for XEN_PV.

Remove all the voodoo invocations which are left overs from the ancient
past, rename the function to switch_gdt_and_percpu_base() and mark it init.

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/20220915111143.198076128@infradead.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T02:07:53+00:00</published>
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With NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK enabled, we need a function to
populate pte, this patch adds a generic pcpu populate pte function,
pcpu_populate_pte(), which is marked __weak and used on most
architectures, but it is overridden on x86, which has its own
implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-5-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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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With NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK enabled, we need a function to
populate pte, this patch adds a generic pcpu populate pte function,
pcpu_populate_pte(), which is marked __weak and used on most
architectures, but it is overridden on x86, which has its own
implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-5-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_fc_alloc/free funciton</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T02:07:49+00:00</published>
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With the previous patch, we could add a generic pcpu first chunk
allocate and free function to cleanup the duplicated definations on each
architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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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<pre>
With the previous patch, we could add a generic pcpu first chunk
allocate and free function to cleanup the duplicated definations on each
architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: percpu: add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t typedef</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T02:07:45+00:00</published>
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Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t and pass it into pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t, pcpu
first chunk allocation will call it to alloc memblock on the
corresponding node by it, this is prepare for the next patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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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Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t and pass it into pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t, pcpu
first chunk allocation will call it to alloc memblock on the
corresponding node by it, this is prepare for the next patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:43:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4421cca0a3e4833b3bf0f20de98eb580ab8c7290'/>
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<content type='text'>
Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.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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<pre>
Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface</title>
<updated>2021-09-14T20:23:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T20:23:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2'/>
<id>77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2</id>
<content type='text'>
The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with
'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are
supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_
address.

Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually
causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function,
and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/

I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the
fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface.

I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence,
but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because
people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular
kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite
messy.

So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual
address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept
as a regular kernel pointer.  And then it converts a couple of users
that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in
lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 40caa127f3c7 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed")
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with
'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are
supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_
address.

Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually
causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function,
and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/

I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the
fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface.

I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence,
but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because
people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular
kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite
messy.

So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual
address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept
as a regular kernel pointer.  And then it converts a couple of users
that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in
lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 40caa127f3c7 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed")
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T17:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T02:43:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a9ee6cf5c60ed1070e786e53665f9b2f23f2bd11'/>
<id>a9ee6cf5c60ed1070e786e53665f9b2f23f2bd11</id>
<content type='text'>
After removal of DISCINTIGMEM the NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES and NUMA
configuration options are equivalent.

Drop CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES and use CONFIG_NUMA instead.

Done with

	$ sed -i 's/CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES/CONFIG_NUMA/' \
		$(git grep -wl CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES)
	$ sed -i 's/NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES/NUMA/' \
		$(git grep -wl NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES)

with manual tweaks afterwards.

[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix arm boot crash]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMj9vHhHOiCVN4BF@linux.ibm.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
After removal of DISCINTIGMEM the NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES and NUMA
configuration options are equivalent.

Drop CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES and use CONFIG_NUMA instead.

Done with

	$ sed -i 's/CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES/CONFIG_NUMA/' \
		$(git grep -wl CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES)
	$ sed -i 's/NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES/NUMA/' \
		$(git grep -wl NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES)

with manual tweaks afterwards.

[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix arm boot crash]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMj9vHhHOiCVN4BF@linux.ibm.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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