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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>2018-06-05T04:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T04:34:39+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cache resource controller updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "An update for the Intel Resource Director Technolgy (RDT) which adds a
  feedback driven software controller to runtime adjust the bandwidth
  allocation MSRs.

  This makes the allocations more accurate and allows to use bandwidth
  values in understandable units (MB/s) instead of using percentage
  based allocations as the original, still available, interface.

  The software controller can be enabled with a new mount option for the
  resctrl filesystem"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Feedback loop to dynamically update mem bandwidth
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Prepare for feedback loop
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add schemata support
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add initialization support
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Enable/disable MBA software controller
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Documentation for MBA software controller(mba_sc)
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Pull x86 cache resource controller updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "An update for the Intel Resource Director Technolgy (RDT) which adds a
  feedback driven software controller to runtime adjust the bandwidth
  allocation MSRs.

  This makes the allocations more accurate and allows to use bandwidth
  values in understandable units (MB/s) instead of using percentage
  based allocations as the original, still available, interface.

  The software controller can be enabled with a new mount option for the
  resctrl filesystem"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Feedback loop to dynamically update mem bandwidth
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Prepare for feedback loop
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add schemata support
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add initialization support
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Enable/disable MBA software controller
  x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Documentation for MBA software controller(mba_sc)
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<entry>
<title>x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option</title>
<updated>2018-05-28T10:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-27T07:31:47+00:00</published>
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This is something drivers should decide (modulo chipset quirks like
for VIA), which as far as I can tell is how things have been handled
for the last 15 years.

Note that we keep the usedac option for now, as it is used in the wild
to override the too generic VIA quirk.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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This is something drivers should decide (modulo chipset quirks like
for VIA), which as far as I can tell is how things have been handled
for the last 15 years.

Note that we keep the usedac option for now, as it is used in the wild
to override the too generic VIA quirk.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option</title>
<updated>2018-05-28T10:48:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-27T07:13:24+00:00</published>
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Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying
the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously
gets in the way of dma mapping work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying
the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously
gets in the way of dma mapping work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c</title>
<updated>2018-05-28T10:48:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-27T07:10:12+00:00</published>
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This is just the minimal workaround.  The file is mostly either stale
and/or duplicative of Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt,
but that is much more work than I'm willing to do right now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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This is just the minimal workaround.  The file is mostly either stale
and/or duplicative of Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt,
but that is much more work than I'm willing to do right now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Documentation for MBA software controller(mba_sc)</title>
<updated>2018-05-19T11:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vikas Shivappa</name>
<email>vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-20T22:36:16+00:00</published>
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Add documentation about the feedback loop mechanism (MBA software
controller) which lets the user specify the memory bandwidth allocation
in MBps. This includes some changes to "schemata" formati with
examples.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524263781-14267-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com

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Add documentation about the feedback loop mechanism (MBA software
controller) which lets the user specify the memory bandwidth allocation
in MBps. This includes some changes to "schemata" formati with
examples.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524263781-14267-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-15T23:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-15T23:12:35+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and updates for x86:

   - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
     rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
     false

   - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
     APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
     space.

   - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
     driver.

   - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
     has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
     the reduced bit information with the original value.

   - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
     specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
     same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
     syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
     the entry patch to the lower registers"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
  x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
  x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
  swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
  syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
  syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
  syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
  syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
  x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
  x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
  x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and updates for x86:

   - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
     rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
     false

   - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
     APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
     space.

   - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
     driver.

   - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
     has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
     the reduced bit information with the original value.

   - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
     specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
     same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
     syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
     the entry patch to the lower registers"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
  x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
  x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
  swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
  syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
  syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
  syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
  syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
  x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
  x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
  x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'WIP.x86/asm' into x86/urgent, because the topic is ready</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T07:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T07:42:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T18:56:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T18:56:35+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  kfifo: fix inaccurate comment
  tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault
  net: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  edd: don't spam log if no EDD information is present
  Documentation: Fix early-microcode.txt references after file rename
  tracing: Block comments should align the * on each line
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  GenWQE: Fix a typo in two comments
  treewide: Align function definition open/close braces
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  kfifo: fix inaccurate comment
  tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault
  net: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  edd: don't spam log if no EDD information is present
  Documentation: Fix early-microcode.txt references after file rename
  tracing: Block comments should align the * on each line
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  GenWQE: Fix a typo in two comments
  treewide: Align function definition open/close braces
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T10:59:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T12:10:25+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")

changed MODULES_END back to a fixed value, but didn't update the documentation
of memory layout for 4-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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;
Fixes: f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180402121025.10244-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")

changed MODULES_END back to a fixed value, but didn't update the documentation
of memory layout for 4-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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;
Fixes: f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180402121025.10244-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: Fix early-microcode.txt references after file rename</title>
<updated>2018-03-27T07:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaak Ristioja</name>
<email>jaak@ristioja.ee</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-09T09:22:16+00:00</published>
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The file Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt was renamed to
Documentation/x86/microcode.txt in 0e3258753f81, but it was still
referenced by its old name in a three places:

* Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
* arch/x86/Kconfig
* arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c

This commit updates these references accordingly.

Fixes: 0e3258753f81 ("x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods")
Signed-off-by: Jaak Ristioja &lt;jaak@ristioja.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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The file Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt was renamed to
Documentation/x86/microcode.txt in 0e3258753f81, but it was still
referenced by its old name in a three places:

* Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
* arch/x86/Kconfig
* arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c

This commit updates these references accordingly.

Fixes: 0e3258753f81 ("x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods")
Signed-off-by: Jaak Ristioja &lt;jaak@ristioja.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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