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<title>Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T20:56:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T20:56:37+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
  Monitoring (CQM) facility.

  The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
  and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
  horrible.

  After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
  into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
  obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
  Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.

  As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
  the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
  management facility with a consistent user interface"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
  x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
  x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
  x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
  x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
  x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
  x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
  x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
  x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
  ...
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Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
  Monitoring (CQM) facility.

  The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
  and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
  horrible.

  After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
  into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
  obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
  Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.

  As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
  the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
  management facility with a consistent user interface"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
  x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
  x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
  x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
  x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
  x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
  x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
  x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
  x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T19:21:28+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support

  The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
  hardware features of x86 CPUs:

   - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
     and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
     limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
     ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)

     Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
     v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
     default.

     (By Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
     upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
     RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
     CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
     encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
     attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
     radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
     decrypt) as well.

     This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
     by default.

     (By Tom Lendacky)

   - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
     hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
     and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
     switch mm's.

     (By Andy Lutomirski)

  All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
  it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
  are all enabled in v4.14 at once"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
  x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
  x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
  x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
  kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
  x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
  acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
  x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
  x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
  x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
  x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
  x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
  x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
  x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T18:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T18:11:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Update documentation, improve robustness and fix a memory leak"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode patches saving flow
  x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods
  x86/microcode/AMD: Free unneeded patch before exit from update_cache()
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Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Update documentation, improve robustness and fix a memory leak"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode patches saving flow
  x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods
  x86/microcode/AMD: Free unneeded patch before exit from update_cache()
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<entry>
<title>x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T20:41:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-25T22:39:04+00:00</published>
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CPUID.(EAX=0x10, ECX=res#):EBX[31:0] reports a bit mask for a resource.
Each set bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding
unit of the resource allocation may be used by other entities in the
platform (e.g. an integrated graphics engine or hardware units outside
the processor core and have direct access to the resource). Each
cleared bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding
allocation unit can be configured to implement a priority-based
allocation scheme without interference with other hardware agents in
the system. Bits outside the length of the CBM are reserved.

More details on the bit mask are described in x86 Software Developer's
Manual.

The bitmask is shown in "info" directory for each resource. It's
up to user to decide how to use the bitmask within a CBM in a partition
to share or isolate a resource with other executing units.

Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725223904.12996-1-tony.luck@intel.com

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CPUID.(EAX=0x10, ECX=res#):EBX[31:0] reports a bit mask for a resource.
Each set bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding
unit of the resource allocation may be used by other entities in the
platform (e.g. an integrated graphics engine or hardware units outside
the processor core and have direct access to the resource). Each
cleared bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding
allocation unit can be configured to implement a priority-based
allocation scheme without interference with other hardware agents in
the system. Bits outside the length of the CBM are reserved.

More details on the bit mask are described in x86 Software Developer's
Manual.

The bitmask is shown in "info" directory for each resource. It's
up to user to decide how to use the bitmask within a CBM in a partition
to share or isolate a resource with other executing units.

Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725223904.12996-1-tony.luck@intel.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Documentation for resctrl based RDT Monitoring</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T20:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vikas Shivappa</name>
<email>vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-25T21:14:21+00:00</published>
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Add a description of resctrl based RDT(resource director technology)
monitoring extension and its usage.

[Tony: Added descriptions for how monitoring and allocation are measured
and some cleanups]

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com

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Add a description of resctrl based RDT(resource director technology)
monitoring extension and its usage.

[Tony: Added descriptions for how monitoring and allocation are measured
and some cleanups]

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T11:18:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T23:36:57+00:00</published>
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Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&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: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&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: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T09:28:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Kai</name>
<email>morgan.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T13:03:46+00:00</published>
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Replace PKEY_DENY_WRITE with PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE,
to match the source code.

Signed-off-by: Wang Kai &lt;morgan.wang@huawei.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;
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace PKEY_DENY_WRITE with PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE,
to match the source code.

Signed-off-by: Wang Kai &lt;morgan.wang@huawei.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;
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T09:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T10:12:27+00:00</published>
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Paul Menzel recently asked how to load microcode on a system and I realized
that we don't really have all the methods written down somewhere.

Do that, so people can go and look them up.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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/20170724101228.17326-3-bp@alien8.de
[ Fix whitespace noise in the new description. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Paul Menzel recently asked how to load microcode on a system and I realized
that we don't really have all the methods written down somewhere.

Do that, so people can go and look them up.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel &lt;pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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/20170724101228.17326-3-bp@alien8.de
[ Fix whitespace noise in the new description. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T08:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-16T22:59:54+00:00</published>
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Most of things are in place and we can enable support for 5-level paging.

The patch makes XEN_PV and XEN_PVH dependent on !X86_5LEVEL. Both are
not ready to work with 5-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.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;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
[ Minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Most of things are in place and we can enable support for 5-level paging.

The patch makes XEN_PV and XEN_PVH dependent on !X86_5LEVEL. Both are
not ready to work with 5-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.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;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
[ Minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu/AMD: Document AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME)</title>
<updated>2017-07-18T09:37:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
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<published>2017-07-17T21:09:58+00:00</published>
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Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Memory
Encryption (SME) feature and add documentation for the mem_encrypt=
kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brijesh Singh &lt;brijesh.singh@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Toshimitsu Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca0a0c13b055fd804cfc92cbaca8acd68057eed0.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Memory
Encryption (SME) feature and add documentation for the mem_encrypt=
kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brijesh Singh &lt;brijesh.singh@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Toshimitsu Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca0a0c13b055fd804cfc92cbaca8acd68057eed0.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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