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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/lib, branch linux-4.8.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/mm/kaslr: Fix -Wformat-security warning</title>
<updated>2016-08-11T08:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Iooss</name>
<email>nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-06T10:20:39+00:00</published>
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debug_putstr() is used to output strings without using printf-like
formatting but debug_putstr(v) is defined as early_printk(v) in
arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c.

This makes clang reports the following warning when building
with -Wformat-security:

    arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c:57:15: warning: format string is not a string
    literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
            debug_putstr(purpose);
                         ^~~~~~~

Fix this by using "%s" in early_printk().

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160806102039.27221-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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debug_putstr() is used to output strings without using printf-like
formatting but debug_putstr(v) is defined as early_printk(v) in
arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c.

This makes clang reports the following warning when building
with -Wformat-security:

    arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c:57:15: warning: format string is not a string
    literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
            debug_putstr(purpose);
                         ^~~~~~~

Fix this by using "%s" in early_printk().

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160806102039.27221-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/hweight: Don't clobber %rdi</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T17:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ville Syrjälä</name>
<email>ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-08T17:35:29+00:00</published>
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The caller expects %rdi to remain intact, push+pop it make that happen.

Fixes the following kind of explosions on my core2duo machine when
trying to reboot or shut down:

  general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in: i915 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper cfbfillrect syscopyarea cfbimgblt sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops cfbcopyarea drm netconsole configfs binfmt_misc iTCO_wdt psmouse pcspkr snd_hda_codec_idt e100 coretemp hwmon snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_i801 mii i2c_smbus lpc_ich mfd_core snd_hda_intel uhci_hcd snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core ehci_pci 8250 ehci_hcd snd_pcm 8250_base usbcore evdev serial_core usb_common parport_pc parport snd_timer snd soundcore
  CPU: 0 PID: 3070 Comm: reboot Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1-perf-dirty #69
  Hardware name:                  /D946GZIS, BIOS TS94610J.86A.0087.2007.1107.1049 11/07/2007
  task: ffff88012a0b4080 task.stack: ffff880123850000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;] x86_perf_event_update+0x52/0xc0
  RSP: 0018:ffff880123853b60  EFLAGS: 00010087
  RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88012fc0a3c0 RCX: 000000000000001e
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000040000000 RDI: ffff88012b014800
  RBP: ffff880123853b88 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffffea0004a012c0 R11: ffffea0004acedc0 R12: ffffffff80000001
  R13: ffff88012b0149c0 R14: ffff88012b014800 R15: 0000000000000018
  FS:  00007f8b155cd700(0000) GS:ffff88012fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f8b155f5000 CR3: 000000012a2d7000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Stack:
   ffff88012fc0a3c0 ffff88012b014800 0000000000000004 0000000000000001
   ffff88012fc1b750 ffff880123853bb0 ffffffff81003d59 ffff88012b014800
   ffff88012fc0a3c0 ffff88012b014800 ffff880123853bd8 ffffffff81003e13
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff81003d59&gt;] x86_pmu_stop+0x59/0xd0
   [&lt;ffffffff81003e13&gt;] x86_pmu_del+0x43/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff8111705d&gt;] event_sched_out.isra.105+0xbd/0x260
   [&lt;ffffffff8111738d&gt;] __perf_remove_from_context+0x2d/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff8111745d&gt;] __perf_event_exit_context+0x4d/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff810c8826&gt;] generic_exec_single+0xb6/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff81117410&gt;] ? __perf_remove_from_context+0xb0/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff81117410&gt;] ? __perf_remove_from_context+0xb0/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff810c898f&gt;] smp_call_function_single+0xdf/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff81113d27&gt;] perf_event_exit_cpu_context+0x87/0xc0
   [&lt;ffffffff81113d73&gt;] perf_reboot+0x13/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff8107578a&gt;] notifier_call_chain+0x4a/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff81075ad7&gt;] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x47/0x60
   [&lt;ffffffff81075b06&gt;] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
   [&lt;ffffffff81076a1d&gt;] kernel_restart_prepare+0x1d/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff81076ae2&gt;] kernel_restart+0x12/0x60
   [&lt;ffffffff81076d56&gt;] SYSC_reboot+0xf6/0x1b0
   [&lt;ffffffff811a823c&gt;] ? mntput_no_expire+0x2c/0x1b0
   [&lt;ffffffff811a83e4&gt;] ? mntput+0x24/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff811894fc&gt;] ? __fput+0x16c/0x1e0
   [&lt;ffffffff811895ae&gt;] ? ____fput+0xe/0x10
   [&lt;ffffffff81072fc3&gt;] ? task_work_run+0x83/0xa0
   [&lt;ffffffff81001623&gt;] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x53/0xc0
   [&lt;ffffffff8100105a&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
   [&lt;ffffffff81076e6e&gt;] SyS_reboot+0xe/0x10
   [&lt;ffffffff814c4ba5&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xa3
  Code: 7c 4c 8d af c0 01 00 00 49 89 fe eb 10 48 09 c2 4c 89 e0 49 0f b1 55 00 4c 39 e0 74 35 4d 8b a6 c0 01 00 00 41 8b 8e 60 01 00 00 &lt;0f&gt; 33 8b 35 6e 02 8c 00 48 c1 e2 20 85 f6 7e d2 48 89 d3 89 cf
  RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;] x86_perf_event_update+0x52/0xc0
   RSP &lt;ffff880123853b60&gt;
  ---[ end trace 7ec95181faf211be ]---
  note: reboot[3070] exited with preempt_count 2

Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: f5967101e9de ("x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The caller expects %rdi to remain intact, push+pop it make that happen.

Fixes the following kind of explosions on my core2duo machine when
trying to reboot or shut down:

  general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in: i915 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper cfbfillrect syscopyarea cfbimgblt sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops cfbcopyarea drm netconsole configfs binfmt_misc iTCO_wdt psmouse pcspkr snd_hda_codec_idt e100 coretemp hwmon snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_i801 mii i2c_smbus lpc_ich mfd_core snd_hda_intel uhci_hcd snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core ehci_pci 8250 ehci_hcd snd_pcm 8250_base usbcore evdev serial_core usb_common parport_pc parport snd_timer snd soundcore
  CPU: 0 PID: 3070 Comm: reboot Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1-perf-dirty #69
  Hardware name:                  /D946GZIS, BIOS TS94610J.86A.0087.2007.1107.1049 11/07/2007
  task: ffff88012a0b4080 task.stack: ffff880123850000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;] x86_perf_event_update+0x52/0xc0
  RSP: 0018:ffff880123853b60  EFLAGS: 00010087
  RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88012fc0a3c0 RCX: 000000000000001e
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000040000000 RDI: ffff88012b014800
  RBP: ffff880123853b88 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffffea0004a012c0 R11: ffffea0004acedc0 R12: ffffffff80000001
  R13: ffff88012b0149c0 R14: ffff88012b014800 R15: 0000000000000018
  FS:  00007f8b155cd700(0000) GS:ffff88012fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f8b155f5000 CR3: 000000012a2d7000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Stack:
   ffff88012fc0a3c0 ffff88012b014800 0000000000000004 0000000000000001
   ffff88012fc1b750 ffff880123853bb0 ffffffff81003d59 ffff88012b014800
   ffff88012fc0a3c0 ffff88012b014800 ffff880123853bd8 ffffffff81003e13
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff81003d59&gt;] x86_pmu_stop+0x59/0xd0
   [&lt;ffffffff81003e13&gt;] x86_pmu_del+0x43/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff8111705d&gt;] event_sched_out.isra.105+0xbd/0x260
   [&lt;ffffffff8111738d&gt;] __perf_remove_from_context+0x2d/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff8111745d&gt;] __perf_event_exit_context+0x4d/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff810c8826&gt;] generic_exec_single+0xb6/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff81117410&gt;] ? __perf_remove_from_context+0xb0/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff81117410&gt;] ? __perf_remove_from_context+0xb0/0xb0
   [&lt;ffffffff810c898f&gt;] smp_call_function_single+0xdf/0x140
   [&lt;ffffffff81113d27&gt;] perf_event_exit_cpu_context+0x87/0xc0
   [&lt;ffffffff81113d73&gt;] perf_reboot+0x13/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff8107578a&gt;] notifier_call_chain+0x4a/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff81075ad7&gt;] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x47/0x60
   [&lt;ffffffff81075b06&gt;] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
   [&lt;ffffffff81076a1d&gt;] kernel_restart_prepare+0x1d/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff81076ae2&gt;] kernel_restart+0x12/0x60
   [&lt;ffffffff81076d56&gt;] SYSC_reboot+0xf6/0x1b0
   [&lt;ffffffff811a823c&gt;] ? mntput_no_expire+0x2c/0x1b0
   [&lt;ffffffff811a83e4&gt;] ? mntput+0x24/0x40
   [&lt;ffffffff811894fc&gt;] ? __fput+0x16c/0x1e0
   [&lt;ffffffff811895ae&gt;] ? ____fput+0xe/0x10
   [&lt;ffffffff81072fc3&gt;] ? task_work_run+0x83/0xa0
   [&lt;ffffffff81001623&gt;] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x53/0xc0
   [&lt;ffffffff8100105a&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
   [&lt;ffffffff81076e6e&gt;] SyS_reboot+0xe/0x10
   [&lt;ffffffff814c4ba5&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xa3
  Code: 7c 4c 8d af c0 01 00 00 49 89 fe eb 10 48 09 c2 4c 89 e0 49 0f b1 55 00 4c 39 e0 74 35 4d 8b a6 c0 01 00 00 41 8b 8e 60 01 00 00 &lt;0f&gt; 33 8b 35 6e 02 8c 00 48 c1 e2 20 85 f6 7e d2 48 89 d3 89 cf
  RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81003c92&gt;] x86_perf_event_update+0x52/0xc0
   RSP &lt;ffff880123853b60&gt;
  ---[ end trace 7ec95181faf211be ]---
  note: reboot[3070] exited with preempt_count 2

Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: f5967101e9de ("x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-08-01T18:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-01T18:23:42+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 header cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree is a cleanup of the x86 tree reducing spurious uses of
  module.h - which should improve build performance a bit"

* 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, crypto: Restore MODULE_LICENSE() to glue_helper.c so it loads
  x86/apic: Remove duplicated include from probe_64.c
  x86/ce4100: Remove duplicated include from ce4100.c
  x86/headers: Include spinlock_types.h in x8664_ksyms_64.c for missing spinlock_t
  x86/platform: Delete extraneous MODULE_* tags fromm ts5500
  x86: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/kvm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/xen: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/platform: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/lib: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86: Don't use module.h just for AUTHOR / LICENSE tags
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<pre>
Pull x86 header cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree is a cleanup of the x86 tree reducing spurious uses of
  module.h - which should improve build performance a bit"

* 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, crypto: Restore MODULE_LICENSE() to glue_helper.c so it loads
  x86/apic: Remove duplicated include from probe_64.c
  x86/ce4100: Remove duplicated include from ce4100.c
  x86/headers: Include spinlock_types.h in x8664_ksyms_64.c for missing spinlock_t
  x86/platform: Delete extraneous MODULE_* tags fromm ts5500
  x86: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/kvm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/xen: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/platform: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/lib: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86/mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  x86: Don't use module.h just for AUTHOR / LICENSE tags
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-07-29T00:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-29T00:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T17:26:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T17:26:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=37e13a1ebe32c4fbfbdb5413f42eb6e71d8b28a4'/>
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains tooling fixes plus some additions:

   - fixes to the vdso2c build environment that Stephen Rothwell is
     using for the linux-next build (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - AVX-512 instruction mappings (Adrian Hunter)

   - misc fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "perf tools: event.h needs asm/perf_regs.h"
  x86: Make the vdso2c compiler use the host architecture headers
  tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64
  objtool: Always use host headers
  objtool: Use tools/scripts/Makefile.arch to get ARCH and HOSTARCH
  tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable
  perf tests kmod-path: Fix build on ubuntu:16.04-x-armhf
  perf tools: Add AVX-512 instructions to the new instructions test
  perf tools: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder used by Intel PT
  x86/insn: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder
  x86/insn: perf tools: Fix vcvtph2ps instruction decoding
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<pre>
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains tooling fixes plus some additions:

   - fixes to the vdso2c build environment that Stephen Rothwell is
     using for the linux-next build (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - AVX-512 instruction mappings (Adrian Hunter)

   - misc fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "perf tools: event.h needs asm/perf_regs.h"
  x86: Make the vdso2c compiler use the host architecture headers
  tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64
  objtool: Always use host headers
  objtool: Use tools/scripts/Makefile.arch to get ARCH and HOSTARCH
  tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable
  perf tests kmod-path: Fix build on ubuntu:16.04-x-armhf
  perf tools: Add AVX-512 instructions to the new instructions test
  perf tools: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder used by Intel PT
  x86/insn: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder
  x86/insn: perf tools: Fix vcvtph2ps instruction decoding
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T00:32:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T00:32:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=77cd3d0c43b7e6c0bb49ca641cf936891f6e1766'/>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes:

   - add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual
     addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
     (Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu)

   - enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees
     Cook)

   - EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar)

   - misc cleanups/fixes"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic
  x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
  x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code
  x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel
  x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization
  x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions
  x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions
  x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions
  x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD
  x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping
  x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names
  x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions
  x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations
  x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker
  x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address
  x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G
  x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately
  x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface
  x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations
  x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes:

   - add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual
     addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
     (Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu)

   - enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees
     Cook)

   - EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar)

   - misc cleanups/fixes"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic
  x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
  x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code
  x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel
  x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization
  x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions
  x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions
  x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions
  x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD
  x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping
  x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names
  x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions
  x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations
  x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker
  x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address
  x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G
  x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately
  x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface
  x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations
  x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/insn: remove pcommit</title>
<updated>2016-07-23T18:04:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-02T18:06:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fd1d961dd681d58308456049a817cbf4c0662018'/>
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The pcommit instruction is being deprecated in favor of either ADR
(asynchronous DRAM refresh: flush-on-power-fail) at the platform level, or
posted-write-queue flush addresses as defined by the ACPI 6.x NFIT (NVDIMM
Firmware Interface Table).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
The pcommit instruction is being deprecated in favor of either ADR
(asynchronous DRAM refresh: flush-on-power-fail) at the platform level, or
posted-write-queue flush addresses as defined by the ACPI 6.x NFIT (NVDIMM
Firmware Interface Table).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/insn: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T12:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-20T08:30:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=25af37f4e1e0a747824e3713b80d6b97dad28b7c'/>
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Add support for Intel's AVX-512 instructions to the instruction decoder.

AVX-512 instructions are documented in Intel Architecture Instruction
Set Extensions Programming Reference (February 2016).

AVX-512 instructions are identified by a EVEX prefix which, for the
purpose of instruction decoding, can be treated as though it were a
4-byte VEX prefix.

Existing instructions which can now accept an EVEX prefix need not be
further annotated in the op code map (x86-opcode-map.txt). In the case
of new instructions, the op code map is updated accordingly.

Also add associated Mask Instructions that are used to manipulate mask
registers used in AVX-512 instructions.

The 'perf tools' instruction decoder is updated in a subsequent patch.
And a representative set of instructions is added to the perf tools new
instructions test in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: X86 ML &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Add support for Intel's AVX-512 instructions to the instruction decoder.

AVX-512 instructions are documented in Intel Architecture Instruction
Set Extensions Programming Reference (February 2016).

AVX-512 instructions are identified by a EVEX prefix which, for the
purpose of instruction decoding, can be treated as though it were a
4-byte VEX prefix.

Existing instructions which can now accept an EVEX prefix need not be
further annotated in the op code map (x86-opcode-map.txt). In the case
of new instructions, the op code map is updated accordingly.

Also add associated Mask Instructions that are used to manipulate mask
registers used in AVX-512 instructions.

The 'perf tools' instruction decoder is updated in a subsequent patch.
And a representative set of instructions is added to the perf tools new
instructions test in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: X86 ML &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/insn: perf tools: Fix vcvtph2ps instruction decoding</title>
<updated>2016-07-20T12:57:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-20T08:30:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6f6ef07f412c5bfc37cde57e94b1fec789471907'/>
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vcvtph2ps does not have an immediate operand, so remove the erroneous
'Ib' from its opcode map entry. Add vcvtph2ps to the perf tools new
instructions test to verify it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: X86 ML &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
vcvtph2ps does not have an immediate operand, so remove the erroneous
'Ib' from its opcode map entry. Add vcvtph2ps to the perf tools new
instructions test to verify it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: X86 ML &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/uaccess: Move thread_info::addr_limit to thread_struct</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T08:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-14T20:22:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=13d4ea097d18b419ad2a2b696063d44bf59acec0'/>
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<content type='text'>
struct thread_info is a legacy mess.  To prepare for its partial removal,
move thread_info::addr_limit out.

As an added benefit, this way is simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/15bee834d09402b47ac86f2feccdf6529f9bc5b0.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
struct thread_info is a legacy mess.  To prepare for its partial removal,
move thread_info::addr_limit out.

As an added benefit, this way is simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/15bee834d09402b47ac86f2feccdf6529f9bc5b0.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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