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<title>rust: kasan/kbuild: fix rustc-option when cross-compiling</title>
<updated>2026-05-26T07:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-07T11:14:42+00:00</published>
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The Makefile version of rustc-option currently checks whether the option
exists for the host target instead of the target actually being compiled
for. It was done this way in commit 46e24a545cdb ("rust: kasan/kbuild:
fix missing flags on first build") to avoid a circular dependency on
target.json. However, because of this, rustc-option currently does not
function when cross-compiling from x86_64 to aarch64 if
CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK is enabled. This is because KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS
contains -Zfixed-x18 under this configuration. Since that flag does not
exist on the host target, rustc-option runs into a compilation failure
every time, leading to all flags being rejected as unsupported.

To fix this, update rustc-option to pass a --target parameter so that
the host target is not used. For targets using target.json, use a
built-in target that is as close as possible to the target created with
target.json to avoid the circular dependency on target.json.

One scenario where this causes a boot failure:
* Cross-compiled from x86_64 to aarch64.
* With CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK=y
* With CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y
* With CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n
Then the resulting kernel image will fail to boot when it first calls
into Rust code with a crash along the lines of "Unable to handle kernel
paging request at virtual address 0ffffffc08541796". This is because the
call threshold is not specified, so rustc will inline kasan operations,
but the kasan shadow offset is not specified, which leads to the inlined
kasan instructions being incorrect.

Note that the -Zsanitizer=kernel-hwaddress parameter itself does not
lead to a rustc-option failure despite being aarch64-specific because
RUSTFLAGS_KASAN has not yet been added to KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS when
rustc-option is evaluated by the kasan Makefile.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 46e24a545cdb ("rust: kasan/kbuild: fix missing flags on first build")
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507-rustc-option-cross-v2-1-2f650a49c2b5@google.com
[ Edited slightly:
    - Reset variable to avoid using the environment.
    - Use a simply expanded variable flavor for simplicity.
    - Export variable so that behavior in sub-`make`s is consistent.

  This matches other variables. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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The Makefile version of rustc-option currently checks whether the option
exists for the host target instead of the target actually being compiled
for. It was done this way in commit 46e24a545cdb ("rust: kasan/kbuild:
fix missing flags on first build") to avoid a circular dependency on
target.json. However, because of this, rustc-option currently does not
function when cross-compiling from x86_64 to aarch64 if
CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK is enabled. This is because KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS
contains -Zfixed-x18 under this configuration. Since that flag does not
exist on the host target, rustc-option runs into a compilation failure
every time, leading to all flags being rejected as unsupported.

To fix this, update rustc-option to pass a --target parameter so that
the host target is not used. For targets using target.json, use a
built-in target that is as close as possible to the target created with
target.json to avoid the circular dependency on target.json.

One scenario where this causes a boot failure:
* Cross-compiled from x86_64 to aarch64.
* With CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK=y
* With CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y
* With CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n
Then the resulting kernel image will fail to boot when it first calls
into Rust code with a crash along the lines of "Unable to handle kernel
paging request at virtual address 0ffffffc08541796". This is because the
call threshold is not specified, so rustc will inline kasan operations,
but the kasan shadow offset is not specified, which leads to the inlined
kasan instructions being incorrect.

Note that the -Zsanitizer=kernel-hwaddress parameter itself does not
lead to a rustc-option failure despite being aarch64-specific because
RUSTFLAGS_KASAN has not yet been added to KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS when
rustc-option is evaluated by the kasan Makefile.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 46e24a545cdb ("rust: kasan/kbuild: fix missing flags on first build")
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507-rustc-option-cross-v2-1-2f650a49c2b5@google.com
[ Edited slightly:
    - Reset variable to avoid using the environment.
    - Use a simply expanded variable flavor for simplicity.
    - Export variable so that behavior in sub-`make`s is consistent.

  This matches other variables. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Consolidate C dialect options</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:52:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T19:10:28+00:00</published>
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Introduce CC_FLAGS_DIALECT to make it easier to update the various
places in the tree that rely on the GNU C standard and Microsoft
extensions flags atomically. All remaining uses of '-std=gnu11' and
'-fms-extensions' are in the tools directory (which has its own build
system) and other standalone Makefiles. This will allow the kernel to
use a narrower option to enable the Microsoft anonymous tagged structure
extension in a simpler manner. Place the CC_FLAGS_DIALECT block after
the configuration include (so that a future change can move the
selection of the flag to Kconfig) but before the
arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile include (so that CC_FLAGS_DIALECT is available
for use in those Makefiles).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;  # parisc
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-fms-anonymous-structs-v1-1-8ee406d3c36c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce CC_FLAGS_DIALECT to make it easier to update the various
places in the tree that rely on the GNU C standard and Microsoft
extensions flags atomically. All remaining uses of '-std=gnu11' and
'-fms-extensions' are in the tools directory (which has its own build
system) and other standalone Makefiles. This will allow the kernel to
use a narrower option to enable the Microsoft anonymous tagged structure
extension in a simpler manner. Place the CC_FLAGS_DIALECT block after
the configuration include (so that a future change can move the
selection of the flag to Kconfig) but before the
arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile include (so that CC_FLAGS_DIALECT is available
for use in those Makefiles).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;  # parisc
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-fms-anonymous-structs-v1-1-8ee406d3c36c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry/vdso: Update the object paths for "make vdso_install"</title>
<updated>2026-01-16T20:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-16T20:40:54+00:00</published>
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The location of the vdso binary files in the object tree has changed;
update "make vdso_install" to match.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/16ea64d1-2a9b-46f9-9fcc-42958f599eb6@leemhuis.info
Fixes: 693c819fedcd ("x86/entry/vdso: Refactor the vdso build")
Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis &lt;linux@leemhuis.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204057.386268-2-hpa@zytor.com
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The location of the vdso binary files in the object tree has changed;
update "make vdso_install" to match.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/16ea64d1-2a9b-46f9-9fcc-42958f599eb6@leemhuis.info
Fixes: 693c819fedcd ("x86/entry/vdso: Refactor the vdso build")
Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis &lt;linux@leemhuis.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204057.386268-2-hpa@zytor.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry/vdso: Move vdso2c to arch/x86/tools</title>
<updated>2026-01-13T23:33:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-16T21:25:56+00:00</published>
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It is generally better to build tools in arch/x86/tools to keep host
cflags proliferation down, and to reduce makefile sequencing issues.
Move the vdso build tool vdso2c into arch/x86/tools in preparation for
refactoring the vdso makefiles.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216212606.1325678-3-hpa@zytor.com
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It is generally better to build tools in arch/x86/tools to keep host
cflags proliferation down, and to reduce makefile sequencing issues.
Move the vdso build tool vdso2c into arch/x86/tools in preparation for
refactoring the vdso makefiles.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216212606.1325678-3-hpa@zytor.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T16:44:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T16:44:26+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Cheaper MAY_EXEC handling for path lookup. This elides MAY_WRITE
     permission checks during path lookup and adds the
     IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag so filesystems like btrfs can avoid
     expensive permission work.

   - Hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery.

   - Add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer.

  Cleanups:

   - Tidy up and inline step_into() and walk_component() for improved
     code generation.

   - Re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files. This refactors file
     timestamp update logic, fixing a layering bypass in btrfs when
     updating timestamps on device files and improving FMODE_NOCMTIME
     handling in VFS now that nfsd started using it.

   - Path lookup optimizations extracting slowpaths into dedicated
     routines and adding branch prediction hints for mntput_no_expire(),
     fd_install(), lookup_slow(), and various other hot paths.

   - Enable clang's -fms-extensions flag, requiring a JFS rename to
     avoid conflicts.

   - Remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c.

   - Stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration. This depends on the
     shared kbuild branch that brings in -fms-extensions support which
     is merged into this branch.

   - Use MD5 library instead of crypto_shash in ecryptfs.

   - Use largest_zero_folio() in iomap_dio_zero().

   - Replace simple_strtol/strtoul with kstrtoint/kstrtouint in init and
     initrd code.

   - Various typo fixes.

  Fixes:

   - Fix emergency sync for btrfs. Btrfs requires an explicit sync_fs()
     call with wait == 1 to commit super blocks. The emergency sync path
     never passed this, leaving btrfs data uncommitted during emergency
     sync.

   - Use local kmap in watch_queue's post_one_notification().

   - Add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer
  fs: inline step_into() and walk_component()
  fs: tidy up step_into() &amp; friends before inlining
  orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly
  btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time
  btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps
  fs: export vfs_utimes
  fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags
  fs: refactor file timestamp update logic
  include/linux/fs.h: trivial fix: regualr -&gt; regular
  fs/splice.c: trivial fix: pipes -&gt; pipe's
  fs: mark lookup_slow() as noinline
  fs: add predicts based on nd-&gt;depth
  fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine
  fs: remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c
  watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification()
  fs: touch up predicts in path lookup
  fs: move fd_install() slowpath into a dedicated routine and provide commentary
  fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery
  fs: touch predicts in do_dentry_open()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Cheaper MAY_EXEC handling for path lookup. This elides MAY_WRITE
     permission checks during path lookup and adds the
     IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag so filesystems like btrfs can avoid
     expensive permission work.

   - Hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery.

   - Add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer.

  Cleanups:

   - Tidy up and inline step_into() and walk_component() for improved
     code generation.

   - Re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files. This refactors file
     timestamp update logic, fixing a layering bypass in btrfs when
     updating timestamps on device files and improving FMODE_NOCMTIME
     handling in VFS now that nfsd started using it.

   - Path lookup optimizations extracting slowpaths into dedicated
     routines and adding branch prediction hints for mntput_no_expire(),
     fd_install(), lookup_slow(), and various other hot paths.

   - Enable clang's -fms-extensions flag, requiring a JFS rename to
     avoid conflicts.

   - Remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c.

   - Stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration. This depends on the
     shared kbuild branch that brings in -fms-extensions support which
     is merged into this branch.

   - Use MD5 library instead of crypto_shash in ecryptfs.

   - Use largest_zero_folio() in iomap_dio_zero().

   - Replace simple_strtol/strtoul with kstrtoint/kstrtouint in init and
     initrd code.

   - Various typo fixes.

  Fixes:

   - Fix emergency sync for btrfs. Btrfs requires an explicit sync_fs()
     call with wait == 1 to commit super blocks. The emergency sync path
     never passed this, leaving btrfs data uncommitted during emergency
     sync.

   - Use local kmap in watch_queue's post_one_notification().

   - Add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer
  fs: inline step_into() and walk_component()
  fs: tidy up step_into() &amp; friends before inlining
  orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly
  btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time
  btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps
  fs: export vfs_utimes
  fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags
  fs: refactor file timestamp update logic
  include/linux/fs.h: trivial fix: regualr -&gt; regular
  fs/splice.c: trivial fix: pipes -&gt; pipe's
  fs: mark lookup_slow() as noinline
  fs: add predicts based on nd-&gt;depth
  fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine
  fs: remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c
  watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification()
  fs: touch up predicts in path lookup
  fs: move fd_install() slowpath into a dedicated routine and provide commentary
  fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery
  fs: touch predicts in do_dentry_open()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: kbuild: support `-Cjump-tables=n` for Rust 1.93.0</title>
<updated>2025-11-04T18:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-01T09:40:11+00:00</published>
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Rust 1.93.0 (expected 2026-01-22) is stabilizing `-Zno-jump-tables`
[1][2] as `-Cjump-tables=n` [3].

Without this change, one would eventually see:

      RUSTC L rust/core.o
    error: unknown unstable option: `no-jump-tables`

Thus support the upcoming version.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116592 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105812 [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/145974 [3]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101094011.1024534-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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Rust 1.93.0 (expected 2026-01-22) is stabilizing `-Zno-jump-tables`
[1][2] as `-Cjump-tables=n` [3].

Without this change, one would eventually see:

      RUSTC L rust/core.o
    error: unknown unstable option: `no-jump-tables`

Thus support the upcoming version.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116592 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105812 [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/145974 [3]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101094011.1024534-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Add '-fms-extensions' to areas with dedicated CFLAGS</title>
<updated>2025-10-31T01:26:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-31T01:26:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5ff8ad3909524ad55297a434f87c238224825bf4'/>
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This is a follow up to commit c4781dc3d1cf ("Kbuild: enable
-fms-extensions") but in a separate change due to being substantially
different from the initial submission.

There are many places within the kernel that use their own CFLAGS
instead of the main KBUILD_CFLAGS, meaning code written with the main
kernel's use of '-fms-extensions' in mind that may be tangentially
included in these areas will result in "error: declaration does not
declare anything" messages from the compiler.

Add '-fms-extensions' to all these areas to ensure consistency, along
with -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag to silence clang's warning about use of the
extension that the kernel cares about using. parisc does not build with
clang so it does not need this warning flag. LoongArch does not need it
either because -W flags from KBUILD_FLAGS are pulled into cflags-vdso.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251030-meerjungfrau-getrocknet-7b46eacc215d@brauner/
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is a follow up to commit c4781dc3d1cf ("Kbuild: enable
-fms-extensions") but in a separate change due to being substantially
different from the initial submission.

There are many places within the kernel that use their own CFLAGS
instead of the main KBUILD_CFLAGS, meaning code written with the main
kernel's use of '-fms-extensions' in mind that may be tangentially
included in these areas will result in "error: declaration does not
declare anything" messages from the compiler.

Add '-fms-extensions' to all these areas to ensure consistency, along
with -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag to silence clang's warning about use of the
extension that the kernel cares about using. parisc does not build with
clang so it does not need this warning flag. LoongArch does not need it
either because -W flags from KBUILD_FLAGS are pulled into cflags-vdso.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251030-meerjungfrau-getrocknet-7b46eacc215d@brauner/
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/build: Disable SSE4a</title>
<updated>2025-10-28T19:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T11:40:59+00:00</published>
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Leyvi Rose reported that his X86_NATIVE_CPU=y build is failing because our
instruction decoder doesn't support SSE4a and the AMDGPU code seems to be
generating those with his compiler of choice (CLANG+LTO).

Now, our normal build flags disable SSE MMX SSE2 3DNOW AVX, but then
CC_FLAGS_FPU re-enable SSE SSE2.

Since nothing mentions SSE3 or SSE4, I'm assuming that -msse (or its negative)
control all SSE variants -- but why then explicitly enumerate SSE2 ?

Anyway, until the instruction decoder gets fixed, explicitly disallow SSE4a
(an AMD specific SSE4 extension).

Fixes: ea1dcca1de12 ("x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arisu Tachibana &lt;arisu.tachibana@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Harry Wentland &lt;harry.wentland@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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Leyvi Rose reported that his X86_NATIVE_CPU=y build is failing because our
instruction decoder doesn't support SSE4a and the AMDGPU code seems to be
generating those with his compiler of choice (CLANG+LTO).

Now, our normal build flags disable SSE MMX SSE2 3DNOW AVX, but then
CC_FLAGS_FPU re-enable SSE SSE2.

Since nothing mentions SSE3 or SSE4, I'm assuming that -msse (or its negative)
control all SSE variants -- but why then explicitly enumerate SSE2 ?

Anyway, until the instruction decoder gets fixed, explicitly disallow SSE4a
(an AMD specific SSE4 extension).

Fixes: ea1dcca1de12 ("x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arisu Tachibana &lt;arisu.tachibana@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Harry Wentland &lt;harry.wentland@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T20:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T20:40:35+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 SEV and apic updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add functionality to provide runtime firmware updates for the non-x86
   parts of an AMD platform like the security processor (ASP) firmware,
   modules etc, for example. The intent being that these updates are
   interim, live fixups before a proper BIOS update can be attempted

 - Add guest support for AMD's Secure AVIC feature which gives encrypted
   guests the needed protection against a malicious hypervisor
   generating unexpected interrupts and injecting them into such guest,
   thus interfering with its operation in an unexpected and negative
   manner.

   The advantage of this scheme is that the guest determines which
   interrupts and when to accept them vs leaving that to the benevolence
   (or not) of the hypervisor

 - Strictly separate the startup code from the rest of the kernel where
   former is executed from the initial 1:1 mapping of memory.

   The problem was that the toolchain-generated version of the code was
   being executed from a different mapping of memory than what was
   "assumed" during code generation, needing an ever-growing pile of
   fixups for absolute memory references which are invalid in the early,
   1:1 memory mapping during boot.

   The major advantage of this is that there's no need to check the 1:1
   mapping portion of the code for absolute relocations anymore and get
   rid of the RIP_REL_REF() macro sprinkling all over the place.

   For more info, see Ard's very detailed writeup on this [1]

 - The usual cleanups and fixes

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMj1kXEzKEuePEiHB%2BHxvfQbFz0sTiHdn4B%2B%2BzVBJ2mhkPkQ4Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  x86/boot: Drop erroneous __init annotation from early_set_pages_state()
  crypto: ccp - Add AMD Seamless Firmware Servicing (SFS) driver
  crypto: ccp - Add new HV-Fixed page allocation/free API
  x86/sev: Add new dump_rmp parameter to snp_leak_pages() API
  x86/startup/sev: Document the CPUID flow in the boot #VC handler
  objtool: Ignore __pi___cfi_ prefixed symbols
  x86/sev: Zap snp_abort()
  x86/apic/savic: Do not use snp_abort()
  x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section
  x86/boot: Move startup code out of __head section
  efistub/x86: Remap inittext read-execute when needed
  x86/boot: Create a confined code area for startup code
  x86/kbuild: Incorporate boot/startup/ via Kbuild makefile
  x86/boot: Revert "Reject absolute references in .head.text"
  x86/boot: Check startup code for absence of absolute relocations
  objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations
  x86/sev: Export startup routines for later use
  x86/sev: Move __sev_[get|put]_ghcb() into separate noinstr object
  x86/sev: Provide PIC aliases for SEV related data objects
  x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging related constants
  ...
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Pull x86 SEV and apic updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add functionality to provide runtime firmware updates for the non-x86
   parts of an AMD platform like the security processor (ASP) firmware,
   modules etc, for example. The intent being that these updates are
   interim, live fixups before a proper BIOS update can be attempted

 - Add guest support for AMD's Secure AVIC feature which gives encrypted
   guests the needed protection against a malicious hypervisor
   generating unexpected interrupts and injecting them into such guest,
   thus interfering with its operation in an unexpected and negative
   manner.

   The advantage of this scheme is that the guest determines which
   interrupts and when to accept them vs leaving that to the benevolence
   (or not) of the hypervisor

 - Strictly separate the startup code from the rest of the kernel where
   former is executed from the initial 1:1 mapping of memory.

   The problem was that the toolchain-generated version of the code was
   being executed from a different mapping of memory than what was
   "assumed" during code generation, needing an ever-growing pile of
   fixups for absolute memory references which are invalid in the early,
   1:1 memory mapping during boot.

   The major advantage of this is that there's no need to check the 1:1
   mapping portion of the code for absolute relocations anymore and get
   rid of the RIP_REL_REF() macro sprinkling all over the place.

   For more info, see Ard's very detailed writeup on this [1]

 - The usual cleanups and fixes

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMj1kXEzKEuePEiHB%2BHxvfQbFz0sTiHdn4B%2B%2BzVBJ2mhkPkQ4Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  x86/boot: Drop erroneous __init annotation from early_set_pages_state()
  crypto: ccp - Add AMD Seamless Firmware Servicing (SFS) driver
  crypto: ccp - Add new HV-Fixed page allocation/free API
  x86/sev: Add new dump_rmp parameter to snp_leak_pages() API
  x86/startup/sev: Document the CPUID flow in the boot #VC handler
  objtool: Ignore __pi___cfi_ prefixed symbols
  x86/sev: Zap snp_abort()
  x86/apic/savic: Do not use snp_abort()
  x86/boot: Get rid of the .head.text section
  x86/boot: Move startup code out of __head section
  efistub/x86: Remap inittext read-execute when needed
  x86/boot: Create a confined code area for startup code
  x86/kbuild: Incorporate boot/startup/ via Kbuild makefile
  x86/boot: Revert "Reject absolute references in .head.text"
  x86/boot: Check startup code for absence of absolute relocations
  objtool: Add action to check for absence of absolute relocations
  x86/sev: Export startup routines for later use
  x86/sev: Move __sev_[get|put]_ghcb() into separate noinstr object
  x86/sev: Provide PIC aliases for SEV related data objects
  x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging related constants
  ...
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<title>x86/kbuild: Incorporate boot/startup/ via Kbuild makefile</title>
<updated>2025-09-03T15:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-28T10:22:21+00:00</published>
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Using core-y is not the correct way to get kbuild to descend into
arch/x86/boot/startup. For instance, building an individual object does
not work as expected when the pattern rule is local to the Makefile

  $ make arch/x86/boot/startup/map_kernel.pi.o
    GEN     Makefile
    CALL    /home/ardb/linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    DESCEND objtool
    INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
  make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/x86/boot/startup/map_kernel.pi.o'.  Stop.
  make[2]: *** [/home/ardb/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:461: arch/x86] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/ardb/linux/Makefile:2011: .] Error 2
  make: *** [/home/ardb/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

So use obj-y from arch.x86/Kbuild instead, which makes things work as
expected.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-42-ardb+git@google.com
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Using core-y is not the correct way to get kbuild to descend into
arch/x86/boot/startup. For instance, building an individual object does
not work as expected when the pattern rule is local to the Makefile

  $ make arch/x86/boot/startup/map_kernel.pi.o
    GEN     Makefile
    CALL    /home/ardb/linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    DESCEND objtool
    INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
  make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/x86/boot/startup/map_kernel.pi.o'.  Stop.
  make[2]: *** [/home/ardb/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:461: arch/x86] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [/home/ardb/linux/Makefile:2011: .] Error 2
  make: *** [/home/ardb/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

So use obj-y from arch.x86/Kbuild instead, which makes things work as
expected.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-42-ardb+git@google.com
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