This is where all the related code already lives.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This will make it easier to track and easier to understand
what components and features are part of the FW_LOADER. There
are some components related to firmware which have *nothing* to
do with the FW_LOADER, souch as PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

As per checkpatch using help is preferred over ---help---.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

If you try to read FW_LOADER today it speaks of old riddles and
unless you have been following development closely you will lose
track of what is what. Even the documentation for PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
is a bit fuzzy and how it fits into this big picture.

Give the FW_LOADER kconfig documentation some love with more up to
date developments and recommendations. While at it, wrap the FW_LOADER
code into its own menu to compartmentalize and make it clearer which
components really are part of the FW_LOADER. This should also make
it easier to later move these kconfig entries into the firmware_loader/
directory later.

This also now recommends using firmwared [0] for folks left needing a
uevent handler in userspace for the sysfs firmware fallback mechanis
given udev's uevent firmware mechanism was ripped out a while ago.

[0] https://github.com/teg/firmwared

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "This seems to have been a comparatively quieter merge window, I assume
  due to holidays etc. The "biggest" change is AMD header cleanups, which
  merge/remove a bunch of them. The AMD gpu scheduler is now being made generic
  with the etnaviv driver wanting to reuse the code, hopefully other drivers
  can go in the same direction.

  Otherwise it's the usual lots of stuff in i915/amdgpu, not so much stuff
  elsewhere.

  Core:
   - Add .last_close and .output_poll_changed helpers to reduce driver footprints
   - Fix plane clipping
   - Improved debug printing support
   - Add panel orientation property
   - Update edid derived properties at edid setting
   - Reduction in fbdev driver footprint
   - Move amdgpu scheduler into core for other drivers to use.

  i915:
   - Selftest and IGT improvements
   - Fast boot prep work on IPS, pipe config
   - HW workarounds for Cannonlake, Geminilake
   - Cannonlake clock and HDMI2.0 fixes
   - GPU cache invalidation and context switch improvements
   - Display planes cleanup
   - New PMU interface for perf queries
   - New firmware support for KBL/SKL
   - Geminilake HW workaround for perforamce
   - Coffeelake stolen memory improvements
   - GPU reset robustness work
   - Cannonlake horizontal plane flipping
   - GVT work

  amdgpu/radeon:
   - RV and Vega header file cleanups (lots of lines gone!)
   - TTM operation context support
   - 48-bit GPUVM support for Vega/RV
   - ECC support for Vega
   - Resizeable BAR support
   - Multi-display sync support
   - Enable swapout for reserved BOs during allocation
   - S3 fixes on Raven
   - GPU reset cleanup and fixes
   - 2+1 level GPU page table

  amdkfd:
   - GFX7/8 SDMA user queues support
   - Hardware scheduling for multiple processes
   - dGPU prep work

  rcar:
   - Added R8A7743/5 support
   - System suspend/resume support

  sun4i:
   - Multi-plane support for YUV formats
   - A83T and LVDS support

  msm:
   - Devfreq support for GPU

  tegra:
   - Prep work for adding Tegra186 support
   - Tegra186 HDMI support
   - HDMI2.0 and zpos support by using generic helpers

  tilcdc:
   - Misc fixes

  omapdrm:
   - Support memory bandwidth limits
   - DSI command mode panel cleanups
   - DMM error handling

  exynos:
   - drop the old IPP subdriver.

  etnaviv:
   - Occlusion query fixes
   - Job handling fixes
   - Prep work for hooking in gpu scheduler

  armada:
   - Move closer to atomic modesetting
   - Allow disabling primary plane if overlay is full screen

  imx:
   - Format modifier support
   - Add tile prefetch to PRE
   - Runtime PM support for PRG

  ast:
   - fix LUT loading"

* tag 'drm-for-v4.16' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1471 commits)
  drm/ast: Load lut in crtc_commit
  drm: Check for lessee in DROP_MASTER ioctl
  drm: fix gpu scheduler link order
  drm/amd/display: Demote error print to debug print when ATOM impl missing
  dma-buf: fix reservation_object_wait_timeout_rcu once more v2
  drm/amdgpu: Avoid leaking PM domain on driver unbind (v2)
  drm/amd/amdgpu: Add Polaris version check
  drm/amdgpu: Reenable manual GPU reset from sysfs
  drm/amdgpu: disable MMHUB power gating on raven
  drm/ttm: Don't unreserve swapped BOs that were previously reserved
  drm/ttm: Don't add swapped BOs to swap-LRU list
  drm/amdgpu: only check for ECC on Vega10
  drm/amd/powerplay: Fix smu_table_entry.handle type
  drm/ttm: add VADDR_FLAG_UPDATED_COUNT to correctly update dma_page global count
  drm: Fix PANEL_ORIENTATION_QUIRKS breaking the Kconfig DRM menuconfig
  drm/radeon: fill in rb backend map on evergreen/ni.
  drm/amdgpu/gfx9: fix ngg enablement to clear gds reserved memory (v2)
  drm/ttm: only free pages rather than update global memory count together
  drm/amdgpu: fix CPU based VM updates
  drm/amdgpu: fix typo in amdgpu_vce_validate_bo
  ...

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of "big" driver core patches for 4.16-rc1.

  The majority of the work here is in the firmware subsystem, with
  reworks to try to attempt to make the code easier to handle in the
  long run, but no functional change. There's also some tree-wide sysfs
  attribute fixups with lots of acks from the various subsystem
  maintainers, as well as a handful of other normal fixes and changes.

  And finally, some license cleanups for the driver core and sysfs code.

  All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (48 commits)
  device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros
  device property: Reuse property_entry_free_data()
  device property: Move property_entry_free_data() upper
  firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
  firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option
  USB: serial: keyspan: Drop firmware Kconfig options
  sysfs: remove DEBUG defines
  sysfs: use SPDX identifiers
  drivers: base: add coredump driver ops
  sysfs: add attribute specification for /sysfs/devices/.../coredump
  test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store()
  test_firmware: make local symbol test_fw_config static
  sysfs: turn WARN() into pr_warn()
  firmware: Fix a typo in fallback-mechanisms.rst
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW
  sysfs.h: Use octal permissions
  component: add debugfs support
  bus: simple-pm-bus: convert bool SIMPLE_PM_BUS to tristate
  ...

It doesn't actually do anything.  Merge its help text into
EXTRA_FIRMWARE.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Fixes: 0946b2fb38fd ("firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Linux 4.15-rc8

Daniel requested this for so the intel CI won't fall over on drm-next
so often.

Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de