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<title>linux-stable.git/init/main.c, branch v4.10.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T19:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-25T03:00:30+00:00</published>
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Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.

This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.

The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).

This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.

Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.

This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.

The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).

This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.

Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-for-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T04:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-15T04:12:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4d98ead183a2be77bfea425d5243e32629eaaeb1'/>
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Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
 "Summary of modules changes for the 4.10 merge window:

   - The rodata= cmdline parameter has been extended to additionally
     apply to module mappings

   - Fix a hard to hit race between module loader error/clean up
     handling and ftrace registration

   - Some code cleanups, notably panic.c and modules code use a unified
     taint_flags table now. This is much cleaner than duplicating the
     taint flag code in modules.c"

* tag 'modules-for-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
  module: fix DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX typo
  module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings
  module: Fix a comment above strong_try_module_get()
  module: When modifying a module's text ignore modules which are going away too
  module: Ensure a module's state is set accordingly during module coming cleanup code
  module: remove trailing whitespace
  taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
  modpost: free allocated memory
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<pre>
Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
 "Summary of modules changes for the 4.10 merge window:

   - The rodata= cmdline parameter has been extended to additionally
     apply to module mappings

   - Fix a hard to hit race between module loader error/clean up
     handling and ftrace registration

   - Some code cleanups, notably panic.c and modules code use a unified
     taint_flags table now. This is much cleaner than duplicating the
     taint flag code in modules.c"

* tag 'modules-for-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
  module: fix DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX typo
  module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings
  module: Fix a comment above strong_try_module_get()
  module: When modifying a module's text ignore modules which are going away too
  module: Ensure a module's state is set accordingly during module coming cleanup code
  module: remove trailing whitespace
  taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
  modpost: free allocated memory
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T20:59:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T20:59:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c11a6cfb0103d5d831e20bd9b75d10d13519fec5'/>
<id>c11a6cfb0103d5d831e20bd9b75d10d13519fec5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
  of keventd_up().

  The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
  to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.

  Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
  sanity check failure."

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
  workqueue: remove keventd_up()
  debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
  workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
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<pre>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
  of keventd_up().

  The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
  to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.

  Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
  sanity check failure."

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
  workqueue: remove keventd_up()
  debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
  workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T05:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T05:58:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b69099c3c7bd6be3087b0ba'/>
<id>e7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b69099c3c7bd6be3087b0ba</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "These are the documentation changes for 4.10.

  It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
  continues. Highlights include:

   - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
     should be more solid now.

   - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
     go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
     integrated.

   - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
     source-friendly versions.

   - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
     various files discussed at the kernel summit.

   - New documentation for the device_link mechanism.

  ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"

* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
  Update Documentation/00-INDEX
  docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
  docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
  docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
  docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
  scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
  Docs: change sh -&gt; awk in REPORTING-BUGS
  Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
  core-api: remove an unexpected unident
  ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
  Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" =&gt; "Introduction"
  Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
  docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
  docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
  docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
  docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
  docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "These are the documentation changes for 4.10.

  It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
  continues. Highlights include:

   - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
     should be more solid now.

   - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
     go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
     integrated.

   - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
     source-friendly versions.

   - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
     various files discussed at the kernel summit.

   - New documentation for the device_link mechanism.

  ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"

* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
  Update Documentation/00-INDEX
  docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
  docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
  docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
  docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
  scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
  Docs: change sh -&gt; awk in REPORTING-BUGS
  Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
  core-api: remove an unexpected unident
  ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
  Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" =&gt; "Introduction"
  Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
  docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
  docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
  docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
  docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
  docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/amd: Check for the C1E bug post ACPI subsystem init</title>
<updated>2016-12-09T20:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-09T18:29:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e7ff3a47630d9512d0bcbdfa73660021087ba445'/>
<id>e7ff3a47630d9512d0bcbdfa73660021087ba445</id>
<content type='text'>
AMD CPUs affected by the E400 erratum suffer from the issue that the
local APIC timer stops when the CPU goes into C1E. Unfortunately there
is no way to detect the affected CPUs on early boot. It's only possible
to determine the range of possibly affected CPUs from the family/model
range.

The actual decision whether to enter C1E and thus cause the bug is done
by the firmware and we need to detect that case late, after ACPI has
been initialized.

The current solution is to check in the idle routine whether the CPU is
affected by reading the MSR_K8_INT_PENDING_MSG MSR and checking for the
K8_INTP_C1E_ACTIVE_MASK bits. If one of the bits is set then the CPU is
affected and the system is switched into forced broadcast mode.

This is ineffective and on non-affected CPUs every entry to idle does
the extra RDMSR.

After doing some research it turns out that the bits are visible on the
boot CPU right after the ACPI subsystem is initialized in the early
boot process. So instead of polling for the bits in the idle loop, add
a detection function after acpi_subsystem_init() and check for the MSR
bits. If set, then the X86_BUG_AMD_APIC_C1E is set on the boot CPU and
the TSC is marked unstable when X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC is not set as it
will stop in C1E state as well.

The switch to broadcast mode cannot be done at this point because the
boot CPU still uses HPET as a clockevent device and the local APIC timer
is not yet calibrated and installed. The switch to broadcast mode on the
affected CPUs needs to be done when the local APIC timer is actually set
up.

This allows to cleanup the amd_e400_idle() function in the next step.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161209182912.2726-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
AMD CPUs affected by the E400 erratum suffer from the issue that the
local APIC timer stops when the CPU goes into C1E. Unfortunately there
is no way to detect the affected CPUs on early boot. It's only possible
to determine the range of possibly affected CPUs from the family/model
range.

The actual decision whether to enter C1E and thus cause the bug is done
by the firmware and we need to detect that case late, after ACPI has
been initialized.

The current solution is to check in the idle routine whether the CPU is
affected by reading the MSR_K8_INT_PENDING_MSG MSR and checking for the
K8_INTP_C1E_ACTIVE_MASK bits. If one of the bits is set then the CPU is
affected and the system is switched into forced broadcast mode.

This is ineffective and on non-affected CPUs every entry to idle does
the extra RDMSR.

After doing some research it turns out that the bits are visible on the
boot CPU right after the ACPI subsystem is initialized in the early
boot process. So instead of polling for the bits in the idle loop, add
a detection function after acpi_subsystem_init() and check for the MSR
bits. If set, then the X86_BUG_AMD_APIC_C1E is set on the boot CPU and
the TSC is marked unstable when X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC is not set as it
will stop in C1E state as well.

The switch to broadcast mode cannot be done at this point because the
boot CPU still uses HPET as a clockevent device and the local APIC timer
is not yet calibrated and installed. The switch to broadcast mode on the
affected CPUs needs to be done when the local APIC timer is actually set
up.

This allows to cleanup the amd_e400_idle() function in the next step.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161209182912.2726-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: fix DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX typo</title>
<updated>2016-11-28T19:37:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-28T14:59:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4d217a5adccf5e806790c37c61cc374a08bd7381'/>
<id>4d217a5adccf5e806790c37c61cc374a08bd7381</id>
<content type='text'>
The newly added 'rodata_enabled' global variable is protected by
the wrong #ifdef, leading to a link error when CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
is turned on:

kernel/module.o: In function `disable_ro_nx':
module.c:(.text.unlikely.disable_ro_nx+0x88): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_disable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_disable_ro+0x8c): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_enable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_enable_ro+0xb0): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'

CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX does not exist, so use the correct one instead.

Fixes: 39290b389ea2 ("module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
The newly added 'rodata_enabled' global variable is protected by
the wrong #ifdef, leading to a link error when CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
is turned on:

kernel/module.o: In function `disable_ro_nx':
module.c:(.text.unlikely.disable_ro_nx+0x88): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_disable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_disable_ro+0x8c): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_enable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_enable_ro+0xb0): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'

CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX does not exist, so use the correct one instead.

Fixes: 39290b389ea2 ("module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings</title>
<updated>2016-11-28T00:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>AKASHI Takahiro</name>
<email>takahiro.akashi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-14T06:15:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=39290b389ea2654f9190e3b48c57d27b24def83e'/>
<id>39290b389ea2654f9190e3b48c57d27b24def83e</id>
<content type='text'>
The current "rodata=off" parameter disables read-only kernel mappings
under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA:
    commit d2aa1acad22f ("mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter
    to disable read-only kernel mappings")

This patch is a logical extension to module mappings ie. read-only mappings
at module loading can be disabled even if CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
(mainly for debug use). Please note, however, that it only affects RO/RW
permissions, keeping NX set.

This is the first step to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX mandatory
(always-on) in the future as CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on x86 and arm64.

Suggested-by: and Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114061505.15238-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
The current "rodata=off" parameter disables read-only kernel mappings
under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA:
    commit d2aa1acad22f ("mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter
    to disable read-only kernel mappings")

This patch is a logical extension to module mappings ie. read-only mappings
at module loading can be disabled even if CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
(mainly for debug use). Please note, however, that it only affects RO/RW
permissions, keeping NX set.

This is the first step to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX mandatory
(always-on) in the future as CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on x86 and arm64.

Suggested-by: and Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114061505.15238-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved</title>
<updated>2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab@s-opensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-18T12:12:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8c27ceff3604b249a9efafbd1bd8b141b79e619d'/>
<id>8c27ceff3604b249a9efafbd1bd8b141b79e619d</id>
<content type='text'>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@s-opensource.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@s-opensource.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9' into for-4.10</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T16:12:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
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<title>gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T21:51:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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