linux.git/Documentation/x86, branch v4.6

x86/doc: Correct limits in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt

2016-04-22T08:03:24+00:00

Correct the size of the module mapping space and the maximum available
physical memory size of current processors.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461310504-15977-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm/pkeys: Add missing Documentation

2016-03-29T09:21:17+00:00

Stefan Richter noticed that the X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS option
in arch/x86/Kconfig references Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt,
but the file does not exist.

This is a patch merging mishap: the final (v8) version of the pkeys
series did not include the documentation patch 32 and v7 included.
Add it now.

Reported-by: Stefan Richter 
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190634.426BEE41@viggo.jf.intel.com
[ Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/Documentation: Start documenting x86 topology

2016-03-29T08:45:04+00:00

This should contain important aspects of how we represent the system
topology on x86. If people have questions about it and this file doesn't
answer it, then it must be updated.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160328095609.GD26651@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-21T01:58:18+00:00

Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code.
     This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which
     has security and general robustness advantages.  (Matt Fleming)

   - Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled.  This is already
     the status quo under other OSs.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable
     attributes for EFI memory mappings.  (Sai Praneeth Prakhya)

   - Various arm64 UEFI enhancements.  (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - ... various fixes and cleanups.

  The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already,
  because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about
  it - third time's the charm we hope!"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU
  x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode
  x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables
  x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
  efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
  efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a >4 KB granular kernel
  efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel
  efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings
  efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used
  arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections
  efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()
  x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings
  efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled
  efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec
  efi: Add Persistent Memory type name
  efi: Add NV memory attribute
  x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
  x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0
  efivars: Use to_efivar_entry
  efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-15T17:39:22+00:00

Pull x86 microcode updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change in this cycle was the separation of the microcode
  loading mechanism from the initrd code plus the support of built-in
  microcode images.

  There were also lots cleanups and general restructuring (by Borislav
  Petkov)"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Drop orig_sum from ext signature checksum
  x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode sanity-checking error messages
  x86/microcode/intel: Merge two consecutive if-statements
  x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of DWSIZE
  x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32
  x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation
  x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
  x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method
  x86/microcode/AMD: Issue microcode updated message later
  x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup get_matching_model_microcode()
  x86/microcode/intel: Remove unused arg of get_matching_model_microcode()
  x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_in_initrd
  x86/microcode/intel: Use *wrmsrl variants
  x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup apply_microcode_intel()
  x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON
  x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_intel variable to mc
  x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_count to num_saved
  x86/microcode/intel: Rename local variables of type struct mc_saved_data
  x86/microcode/AMD: Drop redundant printk prefix
  x86/microcode: Issue update message only once
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-15T16:32:27+00:00

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is another big update. Main changes are:

   - lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
     enhancements.  In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
     code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
     corners have been refreshed.  (Andy Lutomirski)

   - vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)

   - lots of other changes ..."

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
  x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
  x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
  x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
  x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
  x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
  x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
  x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
  x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
  x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
  x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
  x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
  x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
  x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
  x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
  selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
  x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
  x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
  uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
  x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
  ...

x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery

2016-02-18T08:28:47+00:00

The Intel Software Developer Manual describes bit 24 in the MCG_CAP
MSR:

   MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag,
   bit 24 — Indicates (when set) that the processor supports
   software error recovery

But only some models with this capability bit set will actually
generate recoverable machine checks.

Check the model name and set a synthetic capability bit. Provide
a command line option to set this bit anyway in case the kernel
doesn't recognise the model name.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e5bfb23c89800a036fb8a45fa97a74bb16bc362.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options

2016-02-18T08:21:46+00:00

Huge amounts of help from  Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.

Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:

  ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
    in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '

The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.

We start out with three handlers:

 1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
 2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
 3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method

2016-02-09T10:41:19+00:00

Add some text and an example to Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
explaining how to build in microcode.

Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Documentation/x86: Update EFI memory region description

2015-11-29T08:15:43+00:00

Make it clear that the EFI page tables are only available during
EFI runtime calls since that subject has come up a fair numbers
of times in the past.

Additionally, add the EFI region start and end addresses to the
table so that it's possible to see at a glance where they fall
in relation to other regions.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448658575-17029-7-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar