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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/boot, branch v6.12</title>
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<title>mm: rework accept memory helpers</title>
<updated>2024-09-02T03:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T11:48:51+00:00</published>
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Make accept_memory() and range_contains_unaccepted_memory() take 'start'
and 'size' arguments instead of 'start' and 'end'.

Remove accept_page(), replacing it with direct calls to accept_memory(). 
The accept_page() name is going to be used for a different function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809114854.3745464-6-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make accept_memory() and range_contains_unaccepted_memory() take 'start'
and 'size' arguments instead of 'start' and 'end'.

Remove accept_page(), replacing it with direct calls to accept_memory(). 
The accept_page() name is going to be used for a different function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809114854.3745464-6-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2024-07-23T21:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-23T21:32:21+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig

 - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script

 - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

 - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
   default

 - Fix warnings in RPM package builds

 - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
   base DTB and overlays

 - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig

 - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig

 - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
   package builds

 - Remove support for the uncommon "name &lt;email&gt;" form for the DEBEMAIL
   environment variable

 - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0

 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms

 - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/

 - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
   Arch Linux

 - Clean up Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
  kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
  kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
  kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
  kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
  kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
  kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
  kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
  modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
  kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
  Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
  kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
  kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
  kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
  kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
  kbuild: Abort make on install failures
  kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
  kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
  kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
  kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig

 - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script

 - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

 - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
   default

 - Fix warnings in RPM package builds

 - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
   base DTB and overlays

 - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig

 - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig

 - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
   package builds

 - Remove support for the uncommon "name &lt;email&gt;" form for the DEBEMAIL
   environment variable

 - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0

 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms

 - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/

 - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
   Arch Linux

 - Clean up Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
  kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
  kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
  kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
  kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
  kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
  kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
  kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
  modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
  kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
  Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
  kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
  kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
  kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
  kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
  kbuild: Abort make on install failures
  kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
  kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
  kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
  kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Abort make on install failures</title>
<updated>2024-07-20T04:34:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Bingwu</name>
<email>xtexchooser@duck.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-14T08:57:50+00:00</published>
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Setting '-e' flag tells shells to exit with error exit code immediately
after any of commands fails, and causes make(1) to regard recipes as
failed.

Before this, make will still continue to succeed even after the
installation failed, for example, for insufficient permission or
directory does not exist.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Bingwu &lt;xtexchooser@duck.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Setting '-e' flag tells shells to exit with error exit code immediately
after any of commands fails, and causes make(1) to regard recipes as
failed.

Before this, make will still continue to succeed even after the
installation failed, for example, for insufficient permission or
directory does not exist.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Bingwu &lt;xtexchooser@duck.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T19:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T19:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Note the removal of the EFI fake memory map support - this is believed
  to be unused and no longer worth supporting. However, we could easily
  bring it back if needed.

  With recent developments regarding confidential VMs and unaccepted
  memory, combined with kexec, creating a known inaccurate view of the
  firmware's memory map and handing it to the OS is a feature we can
  live without, hence the removal. Alternatively, I could imagine making
  this feature mutually exclusive with those confidential VM related
  features, but let's try simply removing it first.

  Summary:

   - Drop support for the 'fake' EFI memory map on x86

   - Add an SMBIOS based tweak to the EFI stub instructing the firmware
     on x86 Macbook Pros to keep both GPUs enabled

   - Replace 0-sized array with flexible array in EFI memory attributes
     table handling

   - Drop redundant BSS clearing when booting via the native PE
     entrypoint on x86

   - Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS when aborting on an out-of-memory
     condition

   - Cosmetic tweak for arm64 KASLR loading logic"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Replace efi_memory_attributes_table_t 0-sized array with flexible array
  efi: Rename efi_early_memdesc_ptr() to efi_memdesc_ptr()
  arm64/efistub: Clean up KASLR logic
  x86/efistub: Drop redundant clearing of BSS
  x86/efistub: Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS on error
  x86/efistub: Call Apple set_os protocol on dual GPU Intel Macs
  x86/efistub: Enable SMBIOS protocol handling for x86
  efistub/smbios: Simplify SMBIOS enumeration API
  x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Note the removal of the EFI fake memory map support - this is believed
  to be unused and no longer worth supporting. However, we could easily
  bring it back if needed.

  With recent developments regarding confidential VMs and unaccepted
  memory, combined with kexec, creating a known inaccurate view of the
  firmware's memory map and handing it to the OS is a feature we can
  live without, hence the removal. Alternatively, I could imagine making
  this feature mutually exclusive with those confidential VM related
  features, but let's try simply removing it first.

  Summary:

   - Drop support for the 'fake' EFI memory map on x86

   - Add an SMBIOS based tweak to the EFI stub instructing the firmware
     on x86 Macbook Pros to keep both GPUs enabled

   - Replace 0-sized array with flexible array in EFI memory attributes
     table handling

   - Drop redundant BSS clearing when booting via the native PE
     entrypoint on x86

   - Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS when aborting on an out-of-memory
     condition

   - Cosmetic tweak for arm64 KASLR loading logic"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Replace efi_memory_attributes_table_t 0-sized array with flexible array
  efi: Rename efi_early_memdesc_ptr() to efi_memdesc_ptr()
  arm64/efistub: Clean up KASLR logic
  x86/efistub: Drop redundant clearing of BSS
  x86/efistub: Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS on error
  x86/efistub: Call Apple set_os protocol on dual GPU Intel Macs
  x86/efistub: Enable SMBIOS protocol handling for x86
  efistub/smbios: Simplify SMBIOS enumeration API
  x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T18:12:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T18:12:25+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add support for running the kernel in a SEV-SNP guest, over a Secure
   VM Service Module (SVSM).

   When running over a SVSM, different services can run at different
   protection levels, apart from the guest OS but still within the
   secure SNP environment. They can provide services to the guest, like
   a vTPM, for example.

   This series adds the required facilities to interface with such a
   SVSM module.

 - The usual fixlets, refactoring and cleanups

[ And as always: "SEV" is AMD's "Secure Encrypted Virtualization".

  I can't be the only one who gets all the newer x86 TLA's confused,
  can I?
              - Linus ]

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation/ABI/configfs-tsm: Fix an unexpected indentation silly
  x86/sev: Do RMP memory coverage check after max_pfn has been set
  x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units
  virt: sev-guest: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
  x86/sev: Allow non-VMPL0 execution when an SVSM is present
  x86/sev: Extend the config-fs attestation support for an SVSM
  x86/sev: Take advantage of configfs visibility support in TSM
  fs/configfs: Add a callback to determine attribute visibility
  sev-guest: configfs-tsm: Allow the privlevel_floor attribute to be updated
  virt: sev-guest: Choose the VMPCK key based on executing VMPL
  x86/sev: Provide guest VMPL level to userspace
  x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support
  x86/sev: Use the SVSM to create a vCPU when not in VMPL0
  x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0
  x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas
  x86/sev: Check for the presence of an SVSM in the SNP secrets page
  x86/irqflags: Provide native versions of the local_irq_save()/restore()
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<pre>
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add support for running the kernel in a SEV-SNP guest, over a Secure
   VM Service Module (SVSM).

   When running over a SVSM, different services can run at different
   protection levels, apart from the guest OS but still within the
   secure SNP environment. They can provide services to the guest, like
   a vTPM, for example.

   This series adds the required facilities to interface with such a
   SVSM module.

 - The usual fixlets, refactoring and cleanups

[ And as always: "SEV" is AMD's "Secure Encrypted Virtualization".

  I can't be the only one who gets all the newer x86 TLA's confused,
  can I?
              - Linus ]

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation/ABI/configfs-tsm: Fix an unexpected indentation silly
  x86/sev: Do RMP memory coverage check after max_pfn has been set
  x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units
  virt: sev-guest: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
  x86/sev: Allow non-VMPL0 execution when an SVSM is present
  x86/sev: Extend the config-fs attestation support for an SVSM
  x86/sev: Take advantage of configfs visibility support in TSM
  fs/configfs: Add a callback to determine attribute visibility
  sev-guest: configfs-tsm: Allow the privlevel_floor attribute to be updated
  virt: sev-guest: Choose the VMPCK key based on executing VMPL
  x86/sev: Provide guest VMPL level to userspace
  x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support
  x86/sev: Use the SVSM to create a vCPU when not in VMPL0
  x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0
  x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas
  x86/sev: Check for the presence of an SVSM in the SNP secrets page
  x86/irqflags: Provide native versions of the local_irq_save()/restore()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T03:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T03:25:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d67978318827d06f1c0fa4c31343a279e9df6fde'/>
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Pull x86 cpu model updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Flip the logic to add feature names to /proc/cpuinfo to having to
   explicitly specify the flag if there's a valid reason to show it in
   /proc/cpuinfo

 - Switch a bunch of Intel x86 model checking code to the new CPU model
   defines

 - Fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpufeatures: Flip the /proc/cpuinfo appearance logic
  x86/CPU/AMD: Always inline amd_clear_divider()
  x86/mce/inject: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() line
  perf/x86/rapl: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/boot: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpu: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  perf/x86/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/virt/tdx: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/PCI: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/pconfig: Remove unused MKTME pconfig code
  x86/cpu: Remove useless work in detect_tme_early()
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<pre>
Pull x86 cpu model updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Flip the logic to add feature names to /proc/cpuinfo to having to
   explicitly specify the flag if there's a valid reason to show it in
   /proc/cpuinfo

 - Switch a bunch of Intel x86 model checking code to the new CPU model
   defines

 - Fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpufeatures: Flip the /proc/cpuinfo appearance logic
  x86/CPU/AMD: Always inline amd_clear_divider()
  x86/mce/inject: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() line
  perf/x86/rapl: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/boot: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpu: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  perf/x86/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/virt/tdx: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/PCI: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines
  x86/pconfig: Remove unused MKTME pconfig code
  x86/cpu: Remove useless work in detect_tme_early()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T02:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T02:34:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=181a984b7d8d98e5997bcd8e2ebe6ade1b36978e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove an unused function and the documentation of an already removed
   cmdline parameter

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove unused function __fortify_panic()
  Documentation: Remove "mfgpt_irq=" from the kernel-parameters.txt file
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<pre>
Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove an unused function and the documentation of an already removed
   cmdline parameter

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove unused function __fortify_panic()
  Documentation: Remove "mfgpt_irq=" from the kernel-parameters.txt file
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T02:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T02:31:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4578d072fa8f840d2492e1bba30871dbe1e9609a'/>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add a check to warn when cmdline parsing happens before the final
   cmdline string has been built and thus arguments can get lost

 - Code cleanups and simplifications

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/setup: Warn when option parsing is done too early
  x86/boot: Clean up the arch/x86/boot/main.c code a bit
  x86/boot: Use current_stack_pointer to avoid asm() in init_heap()
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add a check to warn when cmdline parsing happens before the final
   cmdline string has been built and thus arguments can get lost

 - Code cleanups and simplifications

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/setup: Warn when option parsing is done too early
  x86/boot: Clean up the arch/x86/boot/main.c code a bit
  x86/boot: Use current_stack_pointer to avoid asm() in init_heap()
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<title>x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T09:55:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T09:03:16+00:00</published>
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A long time ago it was agreed upon that the coco stuff needs to go where
it belongs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yg5nh1RknPRwIrb8@zn.tnic

and not keep it in arch/x86/kernel. TDX did that and SEV can't find time
to do so. So lemme do it. If people have trouble converting their
ongoing featuritis patches, ask me for a sed script.

No functional changes.

Move the instrumentation exclusion bits too, as helpfully caught and
reported by the 0day folks.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406220748.hG3qlmDx-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091342.46d7dbb-oliver.sang@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619093014.17962-1-bp@kernel.org
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A long time ago it was agreed upon that the coco stuff needs to go where
it belongs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yg5nh1RknPRwIrb8@zn.tnic

and not keep it in arch/x86/kernel. TDX did that and SEV can't find time
to do so. So lemme do it. If people have trouble converting their
ongoing featuritis patches, ask me for a sed script.

No functional changes.

Move the instrumentation exclusion bits too, as helpfully caught and
reported by the 0day folks.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406220748.hG3qlmDx-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091342.46d7dbb-oliver.sang@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619093014.17962-1-bp@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps</title>
<updated>2024-07-01T22:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T07:10:49+00:00</published>
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Between kexec and confidential VM support, handling the EFI memory maps
correctly on x86 is already proving to be rather difficult (as opposed
to other EFI architectures which manage to never modify the EFI memory
map to begin with)

EFI fake memory map support is essentially a development hack (for
testing new support for the 'special purpose' and 'more reliable' EFI
memory attributes) that leaked into production code. The regions marked
in this manner are not actually recognized as such by the firmware
itself or the EFI stub (and never have), and marking memory as 'more
reliable' seems rather futile if the underlying memory is just ordinary
RAM.

Marking memory as 'special purpose' in this way is also dubious, but may
be in use in production code nonetheless. However, the same should be
achievable by using the memmap= command line option with the ! operator.

EFI fake memmap support is not enabled by any of the major distros
(Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu) and does not exist on other
architectures, so let's drop support for it.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Between kexec and confidential VM support, handling the EFI memory maps
correctly on x86 is already proving to be rather difficult (as opposed
to other EFI architectures which manage to never modify the EFI memory
map to begin with)

EFI fake memory map support is essentially a development hack (for
testing new support for the 'special purpose' and 'more reliable' EFI
memory attributes) that leaked into production code. The regions marked
in this manner are not actually recognized as such by the firmware
itself or the EFI stub (and never have), and marking memory as 'more
reliable' seems rather futile if the underlying memory is just ordinary
RAM.

Marking memory as 'special purpose' in this way is also dubious, but may
be in use in production code nonetheless. However, the same should be
achievable by using the memmap= command line option with the ! operator.

EFI fake memmap support is not enabled by any of the major distros
(Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu) and does not exist on other
architectures, so let's drop support for it.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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