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<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Properly check the TSA microcode</title>
<updated>2025-07-14T13:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-11T19:23:58+00:00</published>
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In order to simplify backports, I resorted to an older version of the
microcode revision checking which didn't pull in the whole struct
x86_cpu_id matching machinery.

My simpler method, however, forgot to add the extended CPU model to the
patch revision, which lead to mismatches when determining whether TSA
mitigation support is present.

So add that forgotten extended model.

This is a stable-only fix and the preference is to do it this way
because it is a lot simpler. Also, the Fixes: tag below points to the
respective stable patch.

Fixes: 90293047df18 ("x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation")
Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;04ea0a8e-edb0-c59e-ce21-5f3d5d167af3@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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In order to simplify backports, I resorted to an older version of the
microcode revision checking which didn't pull in the whole struct
x86_cpu_id matching machinery.

My simpler method, however, forgot to add the extended CPU model to the
patch revision, which lead to mismatches when determining whether TSA
mitigation support is present.

So add that forgotten extended model.

This is a stable-only fix and the preference is to do it this way
because it is a lot simpler. Also, the Fixes: tag below points to the
respective stable patch.

Fixes: 90293047df18 ("x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation")
Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;04ea0a8e-edb0-c59e-ce21-5f3d5d167af3@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-14T13:33:19+00:00</published>
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Commit 8e786a85c0a3c0fffae6244733fb576eeabd9dec upstream.

Move the VERW clearing before the MONITOR so that VERW doesn't disarm it
and the machine never enters C1.

Original idea by Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 8e786a85c0a3c0fffae6244733fb576eeabd9dec upstream.

Move the VERW clearing before the MONITOR so that VERW doesn't disarm it
and the machine never enters C1.

Original idea by Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Add TSA microcode SHAs</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-27T11:23:55+00:00</published>
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Commit 2329f250e04d3b8e78b36a68b9880ca7750a07ef upstream.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 2329f250e04d3b8e78b36a68b9880ca7750a07ef upstream.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: SVM: Advertise TSA CPUID bits to guests</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-11T09:00:50+00:00</published>
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Commit 31272abd5974b38ba312e9cf2ec2f09f9dd7dcba upstream.

Synthesize the TSA CPUID feature bits for guests. Set TSA_{SQ,L1}_NO on
unaffected machines.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 31272abd5974b38ba312e9cf2ec2f09f9dd7dcba upstream.

Synthesize the TSA CPUID feature bits for guests. Set TSA_{SQ,L1}_NO on
unaffected machines.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-11T08:53:08+00:00</published>
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Commit d8010d4ba43e9f790925375a7de100604a5e2dba upstream.

Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to
support the TSA mitigation.

Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit d8010d4ba43e9f790925375a7de100604a5e2dba upstream.

Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to
support the TSA mitigation.

Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-11T03:13:46+00:00</published>
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Commit f9af88a3d384c8b55beb5dc5483e5da0135fadbd upstream.

It will be used by other x86 mitigations.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit f9af88a3d384c8b55beb5dc5483e5da0135fadbd upstream.

It will be used by other x86 mitigations.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Fix ppc_save_regs inclusion in build</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-11T04:11:11+00:00</published>
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commit 93bd4a80efeb521314485a06d8c21157240497bb upstream.

Recent patch fixed an old commit
'fc2a5a6161a2 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")'
which is to include building of ppc_save_reg.c only when XMON
and KEXEC_CORE and PPC_BOOK3S are enabled. This was valid, since
ppc_save_regs was called only in replay_system_reset() of old
irq.c which was under BOOK3S.

But there has been multiple refactoring of irq.c and have
added call to ppc_save_regs() from __replay_soft_interrupts
-&gt; replay_soft_interrupts which is part of irq_64.c included
under CONFIG_PPC64. And since ppc_save_regs is called in
CRASH_DUMP path as part of crash_setup_regs in kexec.h,
CONFIG_PPC32 also needs it.

So with this recent patch which enabled the building of
ppc_save_regs.c caused a build break when none of these
(XMON, KEXEC_CORE, BOOK3S) where enabled as part of config.
Patch to enable building of ppc_save_regs.c by defaults.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250511041111.841158-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 93bd4a80efeb521314485a06d8c21157240497bb upstream.

Recent patch fixed an old commit
'fc2a5a6161a2 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")'
which is to include building of ppc_save_reg.c only when XMON
and KEXEC_CORE and PPC_BOOK3S are enabled. This was valid, since
ppc_save_regs was called only in replay_system_reset() of old
irq.c which was under BOOK3S.

But there has been multiple refactoring of irq.c and have
added call to ppc_save_regs() from __replay_soft_interrupts
-&gt; replay_soft_interrupts which is part of irq_64.c included
under CONFIG_PPC64. And since ppc_save_regs is called in
CRASH_DUMP path as part of crash_setup_regs in kexec.h,
CONFIG_PPC32 also needs it.

So with this recent patch which enabled the building of
ppc_save_regs.c caused a build break when none of these
(XMON, KEXEC_CORE, BOOK3S) where enabled as part of config.
Patch to enable building of ppc_save_regs.c by defaults.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250511041111.841158-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix struct termio related ioctl macros</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-17T14:22:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251 ]

Since termio interface is now obsolete, include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
has some constant macros referring to "struct termio", this caused
build failure at userspace.

In file included from /usr/include/asm/ioctl.h:12,
                 from /usr/include/asm/ioctls.h:5,
                 from tst-ioctls.c:3:
tst-ioctls.c: In function 'get_TCGETA':
tst-ioctls.c:12:10: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'
   12 |   return TCGETA;
      |          ^~~~~~

Even though termios.h provides "struct termio", trying to juggle definitions around to
make it compile could introduce regressions. So better to open code it.

Reported-by: Tulio Magno &lt;tuliom@ascii.art.br&gt;
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes &lt;jforbes@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/8734dji5wl.fsf@ascii.art.br/
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250517142237.156665-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251 ]

Since termio interface is now obsolete, include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h
has some constant macros referring to "struct termio", this caused
build failure at userspace.

In file included from /usr/include/asm/ioctl.h:12,
                 from /usr/include/asm/ioctls.h:5,
                 from tst-ioctls.c:3:
tst-ioctls.c: In function 'get_TCGETA':
tst-ioctls.c:12:10: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'
   12 |   return TCGETA;
      |          ^~~~~~

Even though termios.h provides "struct termio", trying to juggle definitions around to
make it compile could introduce regressions. So better to open code it.

Reported-by: Tulio Magno &lt;tuliom@ascii.art.br&gt;
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes &lt;jforbes@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/8734dji5wl.fsf@ascii.art.br/
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250517142237.156665-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drm/i915/dp_mst: Work around Thunderbolt sink disconnect after SINK_COUNT_ESI read</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xin Li (Intel)</name>
<email>xin@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-20T23:15:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9cb15478916e849d62a6ec44b10c593b9663328c ]

Due to a problem in the iTBT DP-in adapter's firmware the sink on a TBT
link may get disconnected inadvertently if the SINK_COUNT_ESI and the
DP_LINK_SERVICE_IRQ_VECTOR_ESI0 registers are read in a single AUX
transaction. Work around the issue by reading these registers in
separate transactions.

The issue affects MTL+ platforms and will be fixed in the DP-in adapter
firmware, however releasing that firmware fix may take some time and is
not guaranteed to be available for all systems. Based on this apply the
workaround on affected platforms.

See HSD #13013007775.

v2: Cc'ing Mika Westerberg.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/13760
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14147
Cc: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak &lt;imre.deak@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250519133417.1469181-1-imre.deak@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit c3a48363cf1f76147088b1adb518136ac5df86a0)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9cb15478916e849d62a6ec44b10c593b9663328c ]

Due to a problem in the iTBT DP-in adapter's firmware the sink on a TBT
link may get disconnected inadvertently if the SINK_COUNT_ESI and the
DP_LINK_SERVICE_IRQ_VECTOR_ESI0 registers are read in a single AUX
transaction. Work around the issue by reading these registers in
separate transactions.

The issue affects MTL+ platforms and will be fixed in the DP-in adapter
firmware, however releasing that firmware fix may take some time and is
not guaranteed to be available for all systems. Based on this apply the
workaround on affected platforms.

See HSD #13013007775.

v2: Cc'ing Mika Westerberg.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/13760
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14147
Cc: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak &lt;imre.deak@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250519133417.1469181-1-imre.deak@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit c3a48363cf1f76147088b1adb518136ac5df86a0)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/traps: Initialize DR6 by writing its architectural reset value</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T14:03:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xin Li (Intel)</name>
<email>xin@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-06T11:43:08+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5f465c148c61e876b6d6eacd8e8e365f2d47758f ]

Initialize DR6 by writing its architectural reset value to avoid
incorrectly zeroing DR6 to clear DR6.BLD at boot time, which leads
to a false bus lock detected warning.

The Intel SDM says:

  1) Certain debug exceptions may clear bits 0-3 of DR6.

  2) BLD induced #DB clears DR6.BLD and any other debug exception
     doesn't modify DR6.BLD.

  3) RTM induced #DB clears DR6.RTM and any other debug exception
     sets DR6.RTM.

  To avoid confusion in identifying debug exceptions, debug handlers
  should set DR6.BLD and DR6.RTM, and clear other DR6 bits before
  returning.

The DR6 architectural reset value 0xFFFF0FF0, already defined as
macro DR6_RESERVED, satisfies these requirements, so just use it to
reinitialize DR6 whenever needed.

Since clear_all_debug_regs() no longer zeros all debug registers,
rename it to initialize_debug_regs() to better reflect its current
behavior.

Since debug_read_clear_dr6() no longer clears DR6, rename it to
debug_read_reset_dr6() to better reflect its current behavior.

Fixes: ebb1064e7c2e9 ("x86/traps: Handle #DB for bus lock")
Reported-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/06e68373-a92b-472e-8fd9-ba548119770c@intel.com/
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620231504.2676902-2-xin%40zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5f465c148c61e876b6d6eacd8e8e365f2d47758f ]

Initialize DR6 by writing its architectural reset value to avoid
incorrectly zeroing DR6 to clear DR6.BLD at boot time, which leads
to a false bus lock detected warning.

The Intel SDM says:

  1) Certain debug exceptions may clear bits 0-3 of DR6.

  2) BLD induced #DB clears DR6.BLD and any other debug exception
     doesn't modify DR6.BLD.

  3) RTM induced #DB clears DR6.RTM and any other debug exception
     sets DR6.RTM.

  To avoid confusion in identifying debug exceptions, debug handlers
  should set DR6.BLD and DR6.RTM, and clear other DR6 bits before
  returning.

The DR6 architectural reset value 0xFFFF0FF0, already defined as
macro DR6_RESERVED, satisfies these requirements, so just use it to
reinitialize DR6 whenever needed.

Since clear_all_debug_regs() no longer zeros all debug registers,
rename it to initialize_debug_regs() to better reflect its current
behavior.

Since debug_read_clear_dr6() no longer clears DR6, rename it to
debug_read_reset_dr6() to better reflect its current behavior.

Fixes: ebb1064e7c2e9 ("x86/traps: Handle #DB for bus lock")
Reported-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/06e68373-a92b-472e-8fd9-ba548119770c@intel.com/
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620231504.2676902-2-xin%40zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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