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<title>scs: add CONFIG_MMU dependency for vfree_atomic()</title>
<updated>2024-01-26T07:52:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Holland</name>
<email>samuel.holland@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T17:52:01+00:00</published>
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The shadow call stack implementation fails to build without CONFIG_MMU:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: vfree_atomic
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by scs.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               kernel/scs.o:(scs_free) in archive vmlinux.a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122175204.2371009-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Fixes: a2abe7cbd8fe ("scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The shadow call stack implementation fails to build without CONFIG_MMU:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: vfree_atomic
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by scs.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               kernel/scs.o:(scs_free) in archive vmlinux.a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122175204.2371009-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Fixes: a2abe7cbd8fe ("scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2024-01-18T23:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-18T23:16:57+00:00</published>
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Fix race conditions in device probe path
   - Retire IOMMU bus_ops
   - Support for passing custom allocators to page table drivers
   - Clean up Kconfig around IOMMU_SVA
   - Support for sharing SVA domains with all devices bound to a mm
   - Firmware data parsing cleanup
   - Tracing improvements for iommu-dma code
   - Some smaller fixes and cleanups

  ARM-SMMU drivers:
   - Device-tree binding updates:
      - Add additional compatible strings for Qualcomm SoCs
      - Document Adreno clocks for Qualcomm's SM8350 SoC
   - SMMUv2:
      - Implement support for the -&gt;domain_alloc_paging() callback
      - Ensure Secure context is restored following suspend of Qualcomm
        SMMU implementation
   - SMMUv3:
      - Disable stalling mode for the "quiet" context descriptor
      - Minor refactoring and driver cleanups

  Intel VT-d driver:
   - Cleanup and refactoring

  AMD IOMMU driver:
   - Improve IO TLB invalidation logic
   - Small cleanups and improvements

  Rockchip IOMMU driver:
   - DT binding update to add Rockchip RK3588

  Apple DART driver:
   - Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART support
   - Cleanups

  Virtio IOMMU driver:
   - Add support for iotlb_sync_map
   - Enable deferred IO TLB flushes"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (66 commits)
  iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region
  iommu/vt-d: Move inline helpers to header files
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused vcmd interfaces
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused parameter of intel_pasid_setup_pass_through()
  iommu/vt-d: Refactor device_to_iommu() to retrieve iommu directly
  iommu/sva: Fix memory leak in iommu_sva_bind_device()
  dt-bindings: iommu: rockchip: Add Rockchip RK3588
  iommu/dma: Trace bounce buffer usage when mapping buffers
  iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
  iommu/arm-smmu: Pass arm_smmu_domain to internal functions
  iommu/arm-smmu: Implement IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED
  iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to a global static identity domain
  iommu/arm-smmu: Reorganize arm_smmu_domain_add_master()
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove ARM_SMMU_DOMAIN_NESTED
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Master cannot be NULL in arm_smmu_write_strtab_ent()
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add a type for the STE
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: disable stall for quiet_cd
  iommu/qcom: restore IOMMU state if needed
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add QCM2290 MDSS compatible
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add missing GMU entry to match table
  ...
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Fix race conditions in device probe path
   - Retire IOMMU bus_ops
   - Support for passing custom allocators to page table drivers
   - Clean up Kconfig around IOMMU_SVA
   - Support for sharing SVA domains with all devices bound to a mm
   - Firmware data parsing cleanup
   - Tracing improvements for iommu-dma code
   - Some smaller fixes and cleanups

  ARM-SMMU drivers:
   - Device-tree binding updates:
      - Add additional compatible strings for Qualcomm SoCs
      - Document Adreno clocks for Qualcomm's SM8350 SoC
   - SMMUv2:
      - Implement support for the -&gt;domain_alloc_paging() callback
      - Ensure Secure context is restored following suspend of Qualcomm
        SMMU implementation
   - SMMUv3:
      - Disable stalling mode for the "quiet" context descriptor
      - Minor refactoring and driver cleanups

  Intel VT-d driver:
   - Cleanup and refactoring

  AMD IOMMU driver:
   - Improve IO TLB invalidation logic
   - Small cleanups and improvements

  Rockchip IOMMU driver:
   - DT binding update to add Rockchip RK3588

  Apple DART driver:
   - Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART support
   - Cleanups

  Virtio IOMMU driver:
   - Add support for iotlb_sync_map
   - Enable deferred IO TLB flushes"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (66 commits)
  iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region
  iommu/vt-d: Move inline helpers to header files
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused vcmd interfaces
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused parameter of intel_pasid_setup_pass_through()
  iommu/vt-d: Refactor device_to_iommu() to retrieve iommu directly
  iommu/sva: Fix memory leak in iommu_sva_bind_device()
  dt-bindings: iommu: rockchip: Add Rockchip RK3588
  iommu/dma: Trace bounce buffer usage when mapping buffers
  iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
  iommu/arm-smmu: Pass arm_smmu_domain to internal functions
  iommu/arm-smmu: Implement IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED
  iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to a global static identity domain
  iommu/arm-smmu: Reorganize arm_smmu_domain_add_master()
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove ARM_SMMU_DOMAIN_NESTED
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Master cannot be NULL in arm_smmu_write_strtab_ent()
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add a type for the STE
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: disable stall for quiet_cd
  iommu/qcom: restore IOMMU state if needed
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add QCM2290 MDSS compatible
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add missing GMU entry to match table
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T19:46:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T19:46:20+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in
  many places. The notable patch series are:

   - nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in 'nilfs2: Folio
     conversions for file paths'.

   - Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in 'nilfs2:
     Folio conversions for directory paths'.

   - IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's 'Remove unused code after
     IA-64 removal'.

   - Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning
     everywhere in 'Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes'. This had
     some followup fixes:

      - Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
        'hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in 's390: A couple of
        fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
        'mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings'.

   - Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
     similar to kexec_load in the series 'kexec_file: Load kernel at top
     of system RAM if required'

   - Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory 'kexec_file: print
     out debugging message if required'.

   - Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
     'Modify some code about checkstack'.

   - Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
     multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is
     'watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups'.

   - Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code
     in 'crash: Some cleanups and fixes'"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (157 commits)
  crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()
  x86/crash: use SZ_1M macro instead of hardcoded value
  x86/crash: remove the unused image parameter from prepare_elf_headers()
  kdump: remove redundant DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: strip unexpected CR from lines
  watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping
  watchdog/hardlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/hardlockup: adopt softlockup logic avoiding double-dumps
  kexec_core: fix the assignment to kimage-&gt;control_page
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect end address passed to kernel_ident_mapping_init()
  lib/trace_readwrite.c:: replace asm-generic/io with linux/io
  nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings
  stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo
  scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect argument passed to kexec_dprintk()
  x86/kexec: use pr_err() instead of kexec_dprintk() when an error occurs
  nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread
  kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work
  docs: submit-checklist: remove all of "make namespacecheck"
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in
  many places. The notable patch series are:

   - nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in 'nilfs2: Folio
     conversions for file paths'.

   - Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in 'nilfs2:
     Folio conversions for directory paths'.

   - IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's 'Remove unused code after
     IA-64 removal'.

   - Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning
     everywhere in 'Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes'. This had
     some followup fixes:

      - Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
        'hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in 's390: A couple of
        fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
        'mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings'.

   - Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
     similar to kexec_load in the series 'kexec_file: Load kernel at top
     of system RAM if required'

   - Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory 'kexec_file: print
     out debugging message if required'.

   - Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
     'Modify some code about checkstack'.

   - Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
     multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is
     'watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups'.

   - Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code
     in 'crash: Some cleanups and fixes'"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (157 commits)
  crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()
  x86/crash: use SZ_1M macro instead of hardcoded value
  x86/crash: remove the unused image parameter from prepare_elf_headers()
  kdump: remove redundant DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: strip unexpected CR from lines
  watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping
  watchdog/hardlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/hardlockup: adopt softlockup logic avoiding double-dumps
  kexec_core: fix the assignment to kimage-&gt;control_page
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect end address passed to kernel_ident_mapping_init()
  lib/trace_readwrite.c:: replace asm-generic/io with linux/io
  nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings
  stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo
  scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect argument passed to kexec_dprintk()
  x86/kexec: use pr_err() instead of kexec_dprintk() when an error occurs
  nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread
  kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work
  docs: submit-checklist: remove all of "make namespacecheck"
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mglru: add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG</title>
<updated>2024-01-05T18:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kinsey Ho</name>
<email>kinseyho@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-27T14:12:01+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup", v4.

This series is the result of the following discussion:
https://lore.kernel.org/47066176-bd93-55dd-c2fa-002299d9e034@linux.ibm.com/

It mainly avoids building the code that walks page tables on CPUs that
use it, i.e., those don't support hardware accessed bit. Specifically,
it introduces a new Kconfig to guard some of functions added by
commit bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
on CPUs like POWER9, on which the series was tested.


This patch (of 5):

Some architectures are able to set the accessed bit in PTEs when PTEs
are used as part of linear address translations.

Add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG for such architectures to be able to
override arch_has_hw_pte_young().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-1-kinseyho@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-2-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho &lt;kinseyho@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Donet Tom &lt;donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup", v4.

This series is the result of the following discussion:
https://lore.kernel.org/47066176-bd93-55dd-c2fa-002299d9e034@linux.ibm.com/

It mainly avoids building the code that walks page tables on CPUs that
use it, i.e., those don't support hardware accessed bit. Specifically,
it introduces a new Kconfig to guard some of functions added by
commit bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
on CPUs like POWER9, on which the series was tested.


This patch (of 5):

Some architectures are able to set the accessed bit in PTEs when PTEs
are used as part of linear address translations.

Add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HW_PTE_YOUNG for such architectures to be able to
override arch_has_hw_pte_young().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-1-kinseyho@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-2-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho &lt;kinseyho@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Donet Tom &lt;donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iommu: Change kconfig around IOMMU_SVA</title>
<updated>2023-12-12T09:11:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgg@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T00:05:20+00:00</published>
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Linus suggested that the kconfig here is confusing:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgUiAtiszwseM1p2fCJ+sC4XWQ+YN4TanFhUgvUqjr9Xw@mail.gmail.com/

Let's break it into three kconfigs controlling distinct things:

 - CONFIG_IOMMU_MM_DATA controls if the mm_struct has the additional
   fields for the IOMMU. Currently only PASID, but later patches store
   a struct iommu_mm_data *

 - CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID controls if the arch needs the scheduling bit
   for keeping track of the ENQCMD instruction. x86 will select this if
   IOMMU_SVA is enabled

 - IOMMU_SVA controls if the IOMMU core compiles in the SVA support code
   for iommu driver use and the IOMMU exported API

This way ARM will not enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027000525.1278806-2-tina.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
Linus suggested that the kconfig here is confusing:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgUiAtiszwseM1p2fCJ+sC4XWQ+YN4TanFhUgvUqjr9Xw@mail.gmail.com/

Let's break it into three kconfigs controlling distinct things:

 - CONFIG_IOMMU_MM_DATA controls if the mm_struct has the additional
   fields for the IOMMU. Currently only PASID, but later patches store
   a struct iommu_mm_data *

 - CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID controls if the arch needs the scheduling bit
   for keeping track of the ENQCMD instruction. x86 will select this if
   IOMMU_SVA is enabled

 - IOMMU_SVA controls if the IOMMU core compiles in the SVA support code
   for iommu driver use and the IOMMU exported API

This way ARM will not enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027000525.1278806-2-tina.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T01:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-16T13:36:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0eb5085c38749f2a91e5bd8cbebb1ebf3398343c'/>
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<content type='text'>
IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
as well.

Note: this also reveals a potential bug in powerpc code, which makes use of
__init_task_data without selecting ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK which makes
__init_task_data a no-op. This is broken since commit d11ed3ab3166 ("Expand
INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove") from 2018 and needs to be
addressed separately.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-4-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
as well.

Note: this also reveals a potential bug in powerpc code, which makes use of
__init_task_data without selecting ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK which makes
__init_task_data a no-op. This is broken since commit d11ed3ab3166 ("Expand
INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove") from 2018 and needs to be
addressed separately.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-4-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T01:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-16T13:36:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3888750e21ccb909051c810cc79fcc0650a740f8'/>
<id>3888750e21ccb909051c810cc79fcc0650a740f8</id>
<content type='text'>
IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-3-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-3-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T01:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-16T13:36:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f72709ab69430d986dfc5a08c9a86f625e3fed33'/>
<id>f72709ab69430d986dfc5a08c9a86f625e3fed33</id>
<content type='text'>
Patch series "Remove unused code after IA-64 removal".

While looking into something different I noticed that there are a couple
of Kconfig options which were only selected by IA-64 and which are now
unused.

So remove them and simplify the code a bit.


This patch (of 3):

IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR as
well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Patch series "Remove unused code after IA-64 removal".

While looking into something different I noticed that there are a couple
of Kconfig options which were only selected by IA-64 and which are now
unused.

So remove them and simplify the code a bit.


This patch (of 3):

IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR.
IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR as
well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057'/>
<id>cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057</id>
<content type='text'>
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df57721f9a63e8a1fb9b9b2e70de4aa4c7e0cd2e'/>
<id>df57721f9a63e8a1fb9b9b2e70de4aa4c7e0cd2e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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