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<title>x86/boot/sev: Support memory acceptance in the EFI stub under SVSM</title>
<updated>2025-05-04T06:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-28T17:43:22+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  d54d610243a4 ("x86/boot/sev: Avoid shared GHCB page for early memory acceptance")

provided a fix for SEV-SNP memory acceptance from the EFI stub when
running at VMPL #0. However, that fix was insufficient for SVSM SEV-SNP
guests running at VMPL &gt;0, as those rely on a SVSM calling area, which
is a shared buffer whose address is programmed into a SEV-SNP MSR, and
the SEV init code that sets up this calling area executes much later
during the boot.

Given that booting via the EFI stub at VMPL &gt;0 implies that the firmware
has configured this calling area already, reuse it for performing memory
acceptance in the EFI stub.

Fixes: fcd042e86422 ("x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428174322.2780170-2-ardb+git@google.com
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Commit:

  d54d610243a4 ("x86/boot/sev: Avoid shared GHCB page for early memory acceptance")

provided a fix for SEV-SNP memory acceptance from the EFI stub when
running at VMPL #0. However, that fix was insufficient for SVSM SEV-SNP
guests running at VMPL &gt;0, as those rely on a SVSM calling area, which
is a shared buffer whose address is programmed into a SEV-SNP MSR, and
the SEV init code that sets up this calling area executes much later
during the boot.

Given that booting via the EFI stub at VMPL &gt;0 implies that the firmware
has configured this calling area already, reuse it for performing memory
acceptance in the EFI stub.

Fixes: fcd042e86422 ("x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428174322.2780170-2-ardb+git@google.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Work around broken busybox 'truncate' tool</title>
<updated>2025-04-24T16:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-24T10:19:18+00:00</published>
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The GNU coreutils version of truncate, which is the original, accepts a
% prefix for the -s size argument which means the file in question
should be padded to a multiple of the given size. This is currently used
to pad the setup block of bzImage to a multiple of 4k before appending
the decompressor.

busybox reimplements truncate but does not support this idiom, and
therefore fails the build since commit

  9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")

Since very little build code within the kernel depends on the 'truncate'
utility, work around this incompatibility by avoiding truncate altogether,
and relying on dd to perform the padding.

Fixes: 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")
Reported-by: &lt;phasta@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Philipp Stanner &lt;phasta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424101917.1552527-2-ardb+git@google.com
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The GNU coreutils version of truncate, which is the original, accepts a
% prefix for the -s size argument which means the file in question
should be padded to a multiple of the given size. This is currently used
to pad the setup block of bzImage to a multiple of 4k before appending
the decompressor.

busybox reimplements truncate but does not support this idiom, and
therefore fails the build since commit

  9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")

Since very little build code within the kernel depends on the 'truncate'
utility, work around this incompatibility by avoiding truncate altogether,
and relying on dd to perform the padding.

Fixes: 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")
Reported-by: &lt;phasta@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Philipp Stanner &lt;phasta@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424101917.1552527-2-ardb+git@google.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/sev: Avoid shared GHCB page for early memory acceptance</title>
<updated>2025-04-18T12:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-17T20:21:21+00:00</published>
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Communicating with the hypervisor using the shared GHCB page requires
clearing the C bit in the mapping of that page. When executing in the
context of the EFI boot services, the page tables are owned by the
firmware, and this manipulation is not possible.

So switch to a different API for accepting memory in SEV-SNP guests, one
which is actually supported at the point during boot where the EFI stub
may need to accept memory, but the SEV-SNP init code has not executed
yet.

For simplicity, also switch the memory acceptance carried out by the
decompressor when not booting via EFI - this only involves the
allocation for the decompressed kernel, and is generally only called
after kexec, as normal boot will jump straight into the kernel from the
EFI stub.

Fixes: 6c3211796326 ("x86/sev: Add SNP-specific unaccepted memory support")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250404082921.2767593-8-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410132850.3708703-2-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250417202120.1002102-2-ardb+git@google.com # final submission
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Communicating with the hypervisor using the shared GHCB page requires
clearing the C bit in the mapping of that page. When executing in the
context of the EFI boot services, the page tables are owned by the
firmware, and this manipulation is not possible.

So switch to a different API for accepting memory in SEV-SNP guests, one
which is actually supported at the point during boot where the EFI stub
may need to accept memory, but the SEV-SNP init code has not executed
yet.

For simplicity, also switch the memory acceptance carried out by the
decompressor when not booting via EFI - this only involves the
allocation for the decompressed kernel, and is generally only called
after kexec, as normal boot will jump straight into the kernel from the
EFI stub.

Fixes: 6c3211796326 ("x86/sev: Add SNP-specific unaccepted memory support")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250404082921.2767593-8-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410132850.3708703-2-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250417202120.1002102-2-ardb+git@google.com # final submission
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T22:46:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T22:46:50+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms

 - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

 - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um

 - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility

 - Support the loong64 Debian architecture

 - Add Kbuild bash completion

 - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
   static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux

 - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases

 - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error

 - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB

 - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package

* tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
  kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
  nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
  rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
  kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
  kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
  modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
  x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
  kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
  Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
  x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
  kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
  kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
  kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
  kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
  Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms

 - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

 - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um

 - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility

 - Support the loong64 Debian architecture

 - Add Kbuild bash completion

 - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
   static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux

 - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases

 - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error

 - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB

 - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package

* tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
  kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
  nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
  rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
  kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
  kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
  modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
  x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
  kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
  Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
  x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
  kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
  kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
  kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
  kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
  Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2025-03-29T18:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-29T18:36:19+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Decouple mixed mode startup code from the traditional x86
   decompressor

 - Revert zero-length file hack in efivarfs

 - Prevent EFI zboot from using the CopyMem/SetMem boot services after
   ExitBootServices()

 - Update EFI zboot to use the ZLIB/ZSTD library interfaces directly

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi/libstub: Avoid legacy decompressor zlib/zstd wrappers
  efi/libstub: Avoid CopyMem/SetMem EFI services after ExitBootServices
  efi: efibc: change kmalloc(size * count, ...) to kmalloc_array()
  efivarfs: Revert "allow creation of zero length files"
  x86/efi/mixed: Move mixed mode startup code into libstub
  x86/efi/mixed: Simplify and document thunking logic
  x86/efi/mixed: Remove dependency on legacy startup_32 code
  x86/efi/mixed: Set up 1:1 mapping of lower 4GiB in the stub
  x86/efi/mixed: Factor out and clean up long mode entry
  x86/efi/mixed: Check CPU compatibility without relying on verify_cpu()
  x86/efistub: Merge PE and handover entrypoints
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Decouple mixed mode startup code from the traditional x86
   decompressor

 - Revert zero-length file hack in efivarfs

 - Prevent EFI zboot from using the CopyMem/SetMem boot services after
   ExitBootServices()

 - Update EFI zboot to use the ZLIB/ZSTD library interfaces directly

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi/libstub: Avoid legacy decompressor zlib/zstd wrappers
  efi/libstub: Avoid CopyMem/SetMem EFI services after ExitBootServices
  efi: efibc: change kmalloc(size * count, ...) to kmalloc_array()
  efivarfs: Revert "allow creation of zero length files"
  x86/efi/mixed: Move mixed mode startup code into libstub
  x86/efi/mixed: Simplify and document thunking logic
  x86/efi/mixed: Remove dependency on legacy startup_32 code
  x86/efi/mixed: Set up 1:1 mapping of lower 4GiB in the stub
  x86/efi/mixed: Factor out and clean up long mode entry
  x86/efi/mixed: Check CPU compatibility without relying on verify_cpu()
  x86/efistub: Merge PE and handover entrypoints
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86 boot build: make git ignore stale 'tools' directory</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T06:09:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T06:09:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2df0c02dab829dd89360d98a8a1abaa026ef5798'/>
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We've had this before: when we remove infrastructure to generate files,
the old stale build artifacts still remain in-tree.  And when the
infrastructure to generate them is gone, so is the gitignore file for
those build artifacts.

End result: git will see the old generated files, and people will
mistakenly commit them.  That's what happened with the 'genheaders' file
not that long ago (see commit 04a3389b3535 "Remove stale generated
'genheaders' file").

This time it's commit 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and
the build tool that generates it") that removed the 'build' file from
the arch/x86/boot/tools/ subdirectory, and removed the .gitignore file
too (because the whole subdirectory is gone).

And as a result, if you don't do a 'git clean -dqfx' or similar to clean
up your tree, 'git status' will say

  Untracked files:
    (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
	arch/x86/boot/tools/

and some hapless sleep-deprived developer will inevitably decide that
that means that they need to 'git add' that directory.  Which would
bring back some stale generated file that we most definitely do not want
in the tree.

So when removing directories that had special .gitignore patterns, make
sure to add a new gitignore entry in the parent directory for the no
longer existing subdirectory.

It will avoid mistakes.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We've had this before: when we remove infrastructure to generate files,
the old stale build artifacts still remain in-tree.  And when the
infrastructure to generate them is gone, so is the gitignore file for
those build artifacts.

End result: git will see the old generated files, and people will
mistakenly commit them.  That's what happened with the 'genheaders' file
not that long ago (see commit 04a3389b3535 "Remove stale generated
'genheaders' file").

This time it's commit 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and
the build tool that generates it") that removed the 'build' file from
the arch/x86/boot/tools/ subdirectory, and removed the .gitignore file
too (because the whole subdirectory is gone).

And as a result, if you don't do a 'git clean -dqfx' or similar to clean
up your tree, 'git status' will say

  Untracked files:
    (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
	arch/x86/boot/tools/

and some hapless sleep-deprived developer will inevitably decide that
that means that they need to 'git add' that directory.  Which would
bring back some stale generated file that we most definitely do not want
in the tree.

So when removing directories that had special .gitignore patterns, make
sure to add a new gitignore entry in the parent directory for the no
longer existing subdirectory.

It will avoid mistakes.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 9c54baab4401 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-boot-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T05:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T05:25:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b58386a9bd79222b69890141b9f9cb30a7423d8a'/>
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Pull x86 boot code updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Memblock setup and other early boot code cleanups (Mike Rapoport)

 - Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs (Dave Young)

 - Baby steps of adding relocate_kernel() debugging support (David
   Woodhouse)

 - Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8() (Kuan-Wei Chiu)

 - Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file (Ard Biesheuvel)

 - Misc micro-optimizations (Uros Bizjak)

 - Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code (Mike
   Rapoport)

* tag 'x86-boot-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kexec: Add relocate_kernel() debugging support: Load a GDT
  x86/boot: Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file
  x86/boot: Do not test if AC and ID eflags are changeable on x86_64
  x86/bootflag: Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8()
  x86/bootflag: Micro-optimize sbf_write()
  x86/boot: Add missing has_cpuflag() prototype
  x86/kexec: Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs
  x86/boot: Change some static bootflag functions to bool
  x86/e820: Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code
  x86/boot: Split parsing of boot_params into the parse_boot_params() helper function
  x86/boot: Split kernel resources setup into the setup_kernel_resources() helper function
  x86/boot: Move setting of memblock parameters to e820__memblock_setup()
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Pull x86 boot code updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Memblock setup and other early boot code cleanups (Mike Rapoport)

 - Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs (Dave Young)

 - Baby steps of adding relocate_kernel() debugging support (David
   Woodhouse)

 - Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8() (Kuan-Wei Chiu)

 - Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file (Ard Biesheuvel)

 - Misc micro-optimizations (Uros Bizjak)

 - Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code (Mike
   Rapoport)

* tag 'x86-boot-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kexec: Add relocate_kernel() debugging support: Load a GDT
  x86/boot: Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file
  x86/boot: Do not test if AC and ID eflags are changeable on x86_64
  x86/bootflag: Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8()
  x86/bootflag: Micro-optimize sbf_write()
  x86/boot: Add missing has_cpuflag() prototype
  x86/kexec: Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs
  x86/boot: Change some static bootflag functions to bool
  x86/e820: Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code
  x86/boot: Split parsing of boot_params into the parse_boot_params() helper function
  x86/boot: Split kernel resources setup into the setup_kernel_resources() helper function
  x86/boot: Move setting of memblock parameters to e820__memblock_setup()
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-build-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T05:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T05:23:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ebfb94d87b35a4b5fc6fda0cf994268555ebe415'/>
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Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it (Ard
   Biesheuvel)

 - Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage (Nir
   Lichtman)

* tag 'x86-build-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Add back some padding for the CRC-32 checksum
  x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it
  x86/build: Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage
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Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it (Ard
   Biesheuvel)

 - Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage (Nir
   Lichtman)

* tag 'x86-build-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Add back some padding for the CRC-32 checksum
  x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it
  x86/build: Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage
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<entry>
<title>x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration</title>
<updated>2025-03-22T14:50:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-22T09:03:16+00:00</published>
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The toplevel Makefile already provides -fmacro-prefix-map as part of
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS. In contrast to the KBUILD_CFLAGS and KBUILD_AFLAGS
variables, KBUILD_CPPFLAGS is not redefined in the architecture specific
Makefiles. Therefore the toplevel KBUILD_CPPFLAGS do apply just fine, to
both C and ASM sources.

The custom configuration was necessary when it was added in
commit 9e2276fa6eb3 ("arch/x86/boot: Use prefix map to avoid embedded
paths") but has since become unnecessary in commit a716bd743210
("kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map for .S sources").

Drop the now unnecessary custom prefix map configuration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The toplevel Makefile already provides -fmacro-prefix-map as part of
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS. In contrast to the KBUILD_CFLAGS and KBUILD_AFLAGS
variables, KBUILD_CPPFLAGS is not redefined in the architecture specific
Makefiles. Therefore the toplevel KBUILD_CPPFLAGS do apply just fine, to
both C and ASM sources.

The custom configuration was necessary when it was added in
commit 9e2276fa6eb3 ("arch/x86/boot: Use prefix map to avoid embedded
paths") but has since become unnecessary in commit a716bd743210
("kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map for .S sources").

Drop the now unnecessary custom prefix map configuration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T10:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T10:30:57+00:00</published>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.

This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with UAPI headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.

This is mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), with some manual tweaks in &lt;asm/frame.h&gt;, &lt;asm/hw_irq.h&gt;
and &lt;asm/setup.h&gt; that mentioned this macro in comments with some
missing underscores.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.

This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with UAPI headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.

This is mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), with some manual tweaks in &lt;asm/frame.h&gt;, &lt;asm/hw_irq.h&gt;
and &lt;asm/setup.h&gt; that mentioned this macro in comments with some
missing underscores.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com
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