<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h, branch v5.6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ccaaaf6fe5a5e1fffca5cca0f3fc4ec84d7ae752'/>
<id>ccaaaf6fe5a5e1fffca5cca0f3fc4ec84d7ae752</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T18:41:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T18:41:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=45fc24e89b7cc2e227b2f03d99dda0a2204bf383'/>
<id>45fc24e89b7cc2e227b2f03d99dda0a2204bf383</id>
<content type='text'>
From: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

This removes all the remaining (dead at this point) MPX handling
code remaining in the tree.  The only remaining code is the XSAVE
support for MPX state which is currently needd for KVM to handle
VMs which might use MPX.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
From: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

This removes all the remaining (dead at this point) MPX handling
code remaining in the tree.  The only remaining code is the XSAVE
support for MPX state which is currently needd for KVM to handle
VMs which might use MPX.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Detect VMX features on Intel, Centaur and Zhaoxin CPUs</title>
<updated>2020-01-13T17:02:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-21T04:45:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b47ce1fed42eeb9ac8c07fcda6c795884826723d'/>
<id>b47ce1fed42eeb9ac8c07fcda6c795884826723d</id>
<content type='text'>
Add an entry in struct cpuinfo_x86 to track VMX capabilities and fill
the capabilities during IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization.

Make the VMX capabilities dependent on IA32_FEAT_CTL and
X86_FEATURE_NAMES so as to avoid unnecessary overhead on CPUs that can't
possibly support VMX, or when /proc/cpuinfo is not available.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-11-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add an entry in struct cpuinfo_x86 to track VMX capabilities and fill
the capabilities during IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization.

Make the VMX capabilities dependent on IA32_FEAT_CTL and
X86_FEATURE_NAMES so as to avoid unnecessary overhead on CPUs that can't
possibly support VMX, or when /proc/cpuinfo is not available.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-11-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vmx: Introduce VMX_FEATURES_*</title>
<updated>2020-01-13T16:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-21T04:45:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=159348784ff0654291f4c7607fc55e73da8e87e8'/>
<id>159348784ff0654291f4c7607fc55e73da8e87e8</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a VMX-specific variant of X86_FEATURE_* flags, which will eventually
supplant the synthetic VMX flags defined in cpufeatures word 8.  Use the
Intel-defined layouts for the major VMX execution controls so that their
word entries can be directly populated from their respective MSRs, and
so that the VMX_FEATURE_* flags can be used to define the existing bit
definitions in asm/vmx.h, i.e. force developers to define a VMX_FEATURE
flag when adding support for a new hardware feature.

The majority of Intel's (and compatible CPU's) VMX capabilities are
enumerated via MSRs and not CPUID, i.e. querying /proc/cpuinfo doesn't
naturally provide any insight into the virtualization capabilities of
VMX enabled CPUs.  Commit

  e38e05a85828d ("x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature
		 in /proc/cpuinfo")

attempted to address the issue by synthesizing select VMX features into
a Linux-defined word in cpufeatures.

Lack of reporting of VMX capabilities via /proc/cpuinfo is problematic
because there is no sane way for a user to query the capabilities of
their platform, e.g. when trying to find a platform to test a feature or
debug an issue that has a hardware dependency.  Lack of reporting is
especially problematic when the user isn't familiar with VMX, e.g. the
format of the MSRs is non-standard, existence of some MSRs is reported
by bits in other MSRs, several "features" from KVM's point of view are
enumerated as 3+ distinct features by hardware, etc...

The synthetic cpufeatures approach has several flaws:

  - The set of synthesized VMX flags has become extremely stale with
    respect to the full set of VMX features, e.g. only one new flag
    (EPT A/D) has been added in the the decade since the introduction of
    the synthetic VMX features.  Failure to keep the VMX flags up to
    date is likely due to the lack of a mechanism that forces developers
    to consider whether or not a new feature is worth reporting.

  - The synthetic flags may incorrectly be misinterpreted as affecting
    kernel behavior, i.e. KVM, the kernel's sole consumer of VMX,
    completely ignores the synthetic flags.

  - New CPU vendors that support VMX have duplicated the hideous code
    that propagates VMX features from MSRs to cpufeatures.  Bringing the
    synthetic VMX flags up to date would exacerbate the copy+paste
    trainwreck.

Define separate VMX_FEATURE flags to set the stage for enumerating VMX
capabilities outside of the cpu_has() framework, and for adding
functional usage of VMX_FEATURE_* to help ensure the features reported
via /proc/cpuinfo is up to date with respect to kernel recognition of
VMX capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-10-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add a VMX-specific variant of X86_FEATURE_* flags, which will eventually
supplant the synthetic VMX flags defined in cpufeatures word 8.  Use the
Intel-defined layouts for the major VMX execution controls so that their
word entries can be directly populated from their respective MSRs, and
so that the VMX_FEATURE_* flags can be used to define the existing bit
definitions in asm/vmx.h, i.e. force developers to define a VMX_FEATURE
flag when adding support for a new hardware feature.

The majority of Intel's (and compatible CPU's) VMX capabilities are
enumerated via MSRs and not CPUID, i.e. querying /proc/cpuinfo doesn't
naturally provide any insight into the virtualization capabilities of
VMX enabled CPUs.  Commit

  e38e05a85828d ("x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature
		 in /proc/cpuinfo")

attempted to address the issue by synthesizing select VMX features into
a Linux-defined word in cpufeatures.

Lack of reporting of VMX capabilities via /proc/cpuinfo is problematic
because there is no sane way for a user to query the capabilities of
their platform, e.g. when trying to find a platform to test a feature or
debug an issue that has a hardware dependency.  Lack of reporting is
especially problematic when the user isn't familiar with VMX, e.g. the
format of the MSRs is non-standard, existence of some MSRs is reported
by bits in other MSRs, several "features" from KVM's point of view are
enumerated as 3+ distinct features by hardware, etc...

The synthetic cpufeatures approach has several flaws:

  - The set of synthesized VMX flags has become extremely stale with
    respect to the full set of VMX features, e.g. only one new flag
    (EPT A/D) has been added in the the decade since the introduction of
    the synthetic VMX features.  Failure to keep the VMX flags up to
    date is likely due to the lack of a mechanism that forces developers
    to consider whether or not a new feature is worth reporting.

  - The synthetic flags may incorrectly be misinterpreted as affecting
    kernel behavior, i.e. KVM, the kernel's sole consumer of VMX,
    completely ignores the synthetic flags.

  - New CPU vendors that support VMX have duplicated the hideous code
    that propagates VMX features from MSRs to cpufeatures.  Bringing the
    synthetic VMX flags up to date would exacerbate the copy+paste
    trainwreck.

Define separate VMX_FEATURE flags to set the stage for enumerating VMX
capabilities outside of the cpu_has() framework, and for adding
functional usage of VMX_FEATURE_* to help ensure the features reported
via /proc/cpuinfo is up to date with respect to kernel recognition of
VMX capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-10-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Move enum taa_mitigations to bugs.c</title>
<updated>2019-12-14T15:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T20:58:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=72c2ce9867d9e8535f8c29eb6d842d1caad281af'/>
<id>72c2ce9867d9e8535f8c29eb6d842d1caad281af</id>
<content type='text'>
... because it is used only there.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112221823.19677-1-bp@alien8.de
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
... because it is used only there.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112221823.19677-1-bp@alien8.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/doublefault/32: Move #DF stack and TSS to cpu_entry_area</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T20:53:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T17:27:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dc4e0021b00b5a4ecba56fae509217776592b0aa'/>
<id>dc4e0021b00b5a4ecba56fae509217776592b0aa</id>
<content type='text'>
There are three problems with the current layout of the doublefault
stack and TSS.  First, the TSS is only cacheline-aligned, which is
not enough -- if the hardware portion of the TSS (struct x86_hw_tss)
crosses a page boundary, horrible things happen [0].  Second, the
stack and TSS are global, so simultaneous double faults on different
CPUs will cause massive corruption.  Third, the whole mechanism
won't work if user CR3 is loaded, resulting in a triple fault [1].

Let the doublefault stack and TSS share a page (which prevents the
TSS from spanning a page boundary), make it percpu, and move it into
cpu_entry_area.  Teach the stack dump code about the doublefault
stack.

[0] Real hardware will read past the end of the page onto the next
    *physical* page if a task switch happens.  Virtual machines may
    have any number of bugs, and I would consider it reasonable for
    a VM to summarily kill the guest if it tries to task-switch to
    a page-spanning TSS.

[1] Real hardware triple faults.  At least some VMs seem to hang.
    I'm not sure what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There are three problems with the current layout of the doublefault
stack and TSS.  First, the TSS is only cacheline-aligned, which is
not enough -- if the hardware portion of the TSS (struct x86_hw_tss)
crosses a page boundary, horrible things happen [0].  Second, the
stack and TSS are global, so simultaneous double faults on different
CPUs will cause massive corruption.  Third, the whole mechanism
won't work if user CR3 is loaded, resulting in a triple fault [1].

Let the doublefault stack and TSS share a page (which prevents the
TSS from spanning a page boundary), make it percpu, and move it into
cpu_entry_area.  Teach the stack dump code about the doublefault
stack.

[0] Real hardware will read past the end of the page onto the next
    *physical* page if a task switch happens.  Virtual machines may
    have any number of bugs, and I would consider it reasonable for
    a VM to summarily kill the guest if it tries to task-switch to
    a page-spanning TSS.

[1] Real hardware triple faults.  At least some VMs seem to hang.
    I'm not sure what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/traps: Disentangle the 32-bit and 64-bit doublefault code</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T20:53:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T06:12:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93efbde2c331004d8053f04b4bf0ca3e630b474a'/>
<id>93efbde2c331004d8053f04b4bf0ca3e630b474a</id>
<content type='text'>
The 64-bit doublefault handler is much nicer than the 32-bit one.
As a first step toward unifying them, make the 64-bit handler
self-contained.  This should have no effect no functional effect
except in the odd case of x86_64 with CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=n in which
case it will change the logging a bit.

This also gets rid of CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT configurability on 64-bit
kernels.  It didn't do anything useful -- CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=n
didn't actually disable doublefault handling on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The 64-bit doublefault handler is much nicer than the 32-bit one.
As a first step toward unifying them, make the 64-bit handler
self-contained.  This should have no effect no functional effect
except in the odd case of x86_64 with CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=n in which
case it will change the logging a bit.

This also gets rid of CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT configurability on 64-bit
kernels.  It didn't do anything useful -- CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=n
didn't actually disable doublefault handling on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/iopl: Make 'struct tss_struct' constant size again</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T20:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T20:49:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0bcd7762727dd8ba9b9b6f828e5a4cbd5da4f725'/>
<id>0bcd7762727dd8ba9b9b6f828e5a4cbd5da4f725</id>
<content type='text'>
After the following commit:

  05b042a19443: ("x86/pti/32: Calculate the various PTI cpu_entry_area sizes correctly, make the CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES assert precise")

'struct cpu_entry_area' has to be Kconfig invariant, so that we always
have a matching CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES size.

This commit added a CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM dependency to tss_struct:

  111e7b15cf10: ("x86/ioperm: Extend IOPL config to control ioperm() as well")

Which, if CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM is turned off, reduces the size of
cpu_entry_area by two pages, triggering the assert:

  ./include/linux/compiler.h:391:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_202’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: (CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES+1)*PAGE_SIZE != CPU_ENTRY_AREA_MAP_SIZE

Simplify the Kconfig dependencies and make cpu_entry_area constant
size on 32-bit kernels again.

Fixes: 05b042a19443: ("x86/pti/32: Calculate the various PTI cpu_entry_area sizes correctly, make the CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES assert precise")
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
After the following commit:

  05b042a19443: ("x86/pti/32: Calculate the various PTI cpu_entry_area sizes correctly, make the CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES assert precise")

'struct cpu_entry_area' has to be Kconfig invariant, so that we always
have a matching CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES size.

This commit added a CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM dependency to tss_struct:

  111e7b15cf10: ("x86/ioperm: Extend IOPL config to control ioperm() as well")

Which, if CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM is turned off, reduces the size of
cpu_entry_area by two pages, triggering the assert:

  ./include/linux/compiler.h:391:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_202’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: (CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES+1)*PAGE_SIZE != CPU_ENTRY_AREA_MAP_SIZE

Simplify the Kconfig dependencies and make cpu_entry_area constant
size on 32-bit kernels again.

Fixes: 05b042a19443: ("x86/pti/32: Calculate the various PTI cpu_entry_area sizes correctly, make the CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES assert precise")
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-iopl-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T19:12:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T19:12:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab851d49f6bfc781edd8bd44c72ec1e49211670b'/>
<id>ab851d49f6bfc781edd8bd44c72ec1e49211670b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 iopl updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This implements a nice simplification of the iopl and ioperm code that
  Thomas Gleixner discovered: we can implement the IO privilege features
  of the iopl system call by using the IO permission bitmap in
  permissive mode, while trapping CLI/STI/POPF/PUSHF uses in user-space
  if they change the interrupt flag.

  This implements that feature, with testing facilities and related
  cleanups"

[ "Simplification" may be an over-statement. The main goal is to avoid
  the cli/sti of iopl by effectively implementing the IO port access
  parts of iopl in terms of ioperm.

  This may end up not workign well in case people actually depend on
  cli/sti being available, or if there are mixed uses of iopl and
  ioperm. We will see..       - Linus ]

* 'x86-iopl-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86/ioperm: Fix use of deprecated config option
  x86/entry/32: Clarify register saving in __switch_to_asm()
  selftests/x86/iopl: Extend test to cover IOPL emulation
  x86/ioperm: Extend IOPL config to control ioperm() as well
  x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option
  x86/iopl: Restrict iopl() permission scope
  x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment
  selftests/x86/ioperm: Extend testing so the shared bitmap is exercised
  x86/ioperm: Share I/O bitmap if identical
  x86/ioperm: Remove bitmap if all permissions dropped
  x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work
  x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence number
  x86/ioperm: Move iobitmap data into a struct
  x86/tss: Move I/O bitmap data into a seperate struct
  x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user
  x86/ioperm: Avoid bitmap allocation if no permissions are set
  x86/ioperm: Simplify first ioperm() invocation logic
  x86/iopl: Cleanup include maze
  x86/tss: Fix and move VMX BUILD_BUG_ON()
  x86/cpu: Unify cpu_init()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 iopl updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This implements a nice simplification of the iopl and ioperm code that
  Thomas Gleixner discovered: we can implement the IO privilege features
  of the iopl system call by using the IO permission bitmap in
  permissive mode, while trapping CLI/STI/POPF/PUSHF uses in user-space
  if they change the interrupt flag.

  This implements that feature, with testing facilities and related
  cleanups"

[ "Simplification" may be an over-statement. The main goal is to avoid
  the cli/sti of iopl by effectively implementing the IO port access
  parts of iopl in terms of ioperm.

  This may end up not workign well in case people actually depend on
  cli/sti being available, or if there are mixed uses of iopl and
  ioperm. We will see..       - Linus ]

* 'x86-iopl-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86/ioperm: Fix use of deprecated config option
  x86/entry/32: Clarify register saving in __switch_to_asm()
  selftests/x86/iopl: Extend test to cover IOPL emulation
  x86/ioperm: Extend IOPL config to control ioperm() as well
  x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option
  x86/iopl: Restrict iopl() permission scope
  x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment
  selftests/x86/ioperm: Extend testing so the shared bitmap is exercised
  x86/ioperm: Share I/O bitmap if identical
  x86/ioperm: Remove bitmap if all permissions dropped
  x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work
  x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence number
  x86/ioperm: Move iobitmap data into a struct
  x86/tss: Move I/O bitmap data into a seperate struct
  x86/io: Speedup schedule out of I/O bitmap user
  x86/ioperm: Avoid bitmap allocation if no permissions are set
  x86/ioperm: Simplify first ioperm() invocation logic
  x86/iopl: Cleanup include maze
  x86/tss: Fix and move VMX BUILD_BUG_ON()
  x86/cpu: Unify cpu_init()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1d87200446f1d10dfe9672ca8edb027a82612f8c'/>
<id>1d87200446f1d10dfe9672ca8edb027a82612f8c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
