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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm, branch v4.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Correct setup_header.start_sys name</title>
<updated>2017-03-01T10:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-21T18:36:39+00:00</published>
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It is called start_sys_seg elsewhere so rename it to that. It is an
obsolete field so we could just as well directly call it __u16 __pad...

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170221183639.16554-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
It is called start_sys_seg elsewhere so rename it to that. It is an
obsolete field so we could just as well directly call it __u16 __pad...

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170221183639.16554-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T02:22:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-23T02:22:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fd7e9a88348472521d999434ee02f25735c7dadf'/>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
  over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.

  ARM:
   - GICv3 save/restore
   - cache flushing fixes
   - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
   - physical timer emulation

  MIPS:
   - various improvements under the hood
   - support for SMP guests
   - a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
     notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
     swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
     also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
     treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
     virtualization support.

  PPC:
   - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
   - resizable hashed page table
   - bugfixes.

  s390:
   - expose more features to the guest
   - more SIMD extensions
   - instruction execution protection
   - ESOP2

  x86:
   - improved hashing in the MMU
   - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
   - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
     migration support of nested hypervisors
   - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
   - host-to-guest PTP support
   - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
     in and some duct tape removed.
   - remove lazy FPU handling
   - optimizations of user-mode exits
   - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests

  generic:
   - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
     tsk-&gt;sighand-&gt;siglock"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
  x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
  x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
  KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
  x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
  x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
  x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
  x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
  x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
  x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
  kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
  KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
  KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
  KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
  KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn-&gt;hva cache
  KVM: use separate generations for each address space
  ...
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<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
  over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.

  ARM:
   - GICv3 save/restore
   - cache flushing fixes
   - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
   - physical timer emulation

  MIPS:
   - various improvements under the hood
   - support for SMP guests
   - a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
     notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
     swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
     also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
     treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
     virtualization support.

  PPC:
   - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
   - resizable hashed page table
   - bugfixes.

  s390:
   - expose more features to the guest
   - more SIMD extensions
   - instruction execution protection
   - ESOP2

  x86:
   - improved hashing in the MMU
   - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
   - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
     migration support of nested hypervisors
   - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
   - host-to-guest PTP support
   - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
     in and some duct tape removed.
   - remove lazy FPU handling
   - optimizations of user-mode exits
   - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests

  generic:
   - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
     tsk-&gt;sighand-&gt;siglock"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
  x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
  x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
  KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
  x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
  x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
  x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
  x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
  x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
  x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
  kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
  KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
  KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
  KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
  KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn-&gt;hva cache
  KVM: use separate generations for each address space
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2017-02-22T19:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T19:38:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e30aee9e10bb5168579e047f05c3d13d09e23356'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1.

  Lots of different driver subsystems updated here: rework for the
  hyperv subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon
  driver updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (169 commits)
  goldfish: Sanitize the broken interrupt handler
  x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading
  vmbus: replace modulus operation with subtraction
  vmbus: constify parameters where possible
  vmbus: expose hv_begin/end_read
  vmbus: remove conditional locking of vmbus_write
  vmbus: add direct isr callback mode
  vmbus: change to per channel tasklet
  vmbus: put related per-cpu variable together
  vmbus: callback is in softirq not workqueue
  binder: Add support for file-descriptor arrays
  binder: Add support for scatter-gather
  binder: Add extra size to allocator
  binder: Refactor binder_transact()
  binder: Support multiple /dev instances
  binder: Deal with contexts in debugfs
  binder: Support multiple context managers
  binder: Split flat_binder_object
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: remove private workqueue
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: rework input device initialization
  ...
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<pre>
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1.

  Lots of different driver subsystems updated here: rework for the
  hyperv subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon
  driver updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (169 commits)
  goldfish: Sanitize the broken interrupt handler
  x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading
  vmbus: replace modulus operation with subtraction
  vmbus: constify parameters where possible
  vmbus: expose hv_begin/end_read
  vmbus: remove conditional locking of vmbus_write
  vmbus: add direct isr callback mode
  vmbus: change to per channel tasklet
  vmbus: put related per-cpu variable together
  vmbus: callback is in softirq not workqueue
  binder: Add support for file-descriptor arrays
  binder: Add support for scatter-gather
  binder: Add extra size to allocator
  binder: Refactor binder_transact()
  binder: Support multiple /dev instances
  binder: Deal with contexts in debugfs
  binder: Support multiple context managers
  binder: Split flat_binder_object
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: remove private workqueue
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: rework input device initialization
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-02-20T22:37:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-20T22:37:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8a9365a4725a4d6265a416dd63bff937e300308e'/>
<id>8a9365a4725a4d6265a416dd63bff937e300308e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were related to enable ring-3
  MONITOR/MWAIT instructions support on supported CPUs, by Grzegorz
  Andrejczuk and Piotr Luc"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpufeature: Move RING3MWAIT feature to avoid conflicts
  x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Mill
  x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Landing
  x86/cpufeature: Add RING3MWAIT to CPU features
  x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT
  x86/msr: Add MSR_MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES and RING3MWAIT bit
  x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature
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<pre>
Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were related to enable ring-3
  MONITOR/MWAIT instructions support on supported CPUs, by Grzegorz
  Andrejczuk and Piotr Luc"

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpufeature: Move RING3MWAIT feature to avoid conflicts
  x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Mill
  x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Landing
  x86/cpufeature: Add RING3MWAIT to CPU features
  x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT
  x86/msr: Add MSR_MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES and RING3MWAIT bit
  x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercall</title>
<updated>2017-02-07T17:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcelo Tosatti</name>
<email>mtosatti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-24T17:09:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=55dd00a73a518281bc846dc5de1a718349431eb2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add a hypercall to retrieve the host realtime clock and the TSC value
used to calculate that clock read.

Used to implement clock synchronization between host and guest.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a hypercall to retrieve the host realtime clock and the TSC value
used to calculate that clock read.

Used to implement clock synchronization between host and guest.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Get and store the secure boot status</title>
<updated>2017-02-07T09:42:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-06T11:22:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=de8cb458625c164bb3f93c4e415e479afce8fa9d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash
it somewhere that the main kernel image can find.

The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a)
generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use
efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode.

For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot
loader or kexec.  This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new
kernel.

Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash
it somewhere that the main kernel image can find.

The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a)
generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use
efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode.

For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot
loader or kexec.  This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new
kernel.

Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT</title>
<updated>2017-02-04T07:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grzegorz Andrejczuk</name>
<email>grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T13:22:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0274f9551eff55dbd63b5f5f3efe30fe5d4c801c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Introduce ELF_HWCAP2 variable for x86 and reserve its bit 0 to expose the
ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT.

HWCAP variables contain bitmasks which can be used by userspace
applications to detect which instruction sets are supported by CPU.  On x86
architecture information about CPU capabilities can be checked via CPUID
instructions, unfortunately presence of ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature cannot
be checked this way. ELF_HWCAP cannot be used as well, because on x86 it is
set to CPUID[1].EDX which means that all bits are reserved there.

HWCAP2 approach was chosen because it reuses existing solution present
in other architectures, so only minor modifications are required to the
kernel and userspace applications. When ELF_HWCAP2 is defined
kernel maps it to AT_HWCAP2 during the start of the application.
This way the ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature can be detected using getauxval()
API in a simple and fast manner. ELF_HWCAP2 type is u32 to be consistent
with x86 ELF_HWCAP type.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk &lt;grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-3-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
Introduce ELF_HWCAP2 variable for x86 and reserve its bit 0 to expose the
ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT.

HWCAP variables contain bitmasks which can be used by userspace
applications to detect which instruction sets are supported by CPU.  On x86
architecture information about CPU capabilities can be checked via CPUID
instructions, unfortunately presence of ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature cannot
be checked this way. ELF_HWCAP cannot be used as well, because on x86 it is
set to CPUID[1].EDX which means that all bits are reserved there.

HWCAP2 approach was chosen because it reuses existing solution present
in other architectures, so only minor modifications are required to the
kernel and userspace applications. When ELF_HWCAP2 is defined
kernel maps it to AT_HWCAP2 during the start of the application.
This way the ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature can be detected using getauxval()
API in a simple and fast manner. ELF_HWCAP2 type is u32 to be consistent
with x86 ELF_HWCAP type.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk &lt;grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-3-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Move the crash notification function</title>
<updated>2017-01-20T13:48:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K. Y. Srinivasan</name>
<email>kys@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-19T18:51:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d058fa7e98ff01a4b4750a2210fc19906db3cbe1'/>
<id>d058fa7e98ff01a4b4750a2210fc19906db3cbe1</id>
<content type='text'>
As part of the effort to separate out architecture specific code, move the
crash notification function.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
As part of the effort to separate out architecture specific code, move the
crash notification function.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T23:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T23:47:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93173b5bf2841da7e3a9b0cb1312ef5c87251524'/>
<id>93173b5bf2841da7e3a9b0cb1312ef5c87251524</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt
  improvements.

  x86:
   - userspace can now hide nested VMX features from guests
   - nested VMX can now run Hyper-V in a guest
   - support for AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_FMAPS in KVM
   - infrastructure support for virtual Intel GPUs.

  PPC:
   - support for KVM guests on POWER9
   - improved support for interrupt polling
   - optimizations and cleanups.

  s390:
   - two small optimizations, more stuff is in flight and will be in
     4.11.

  ARM:
   - support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
  arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
  KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Check for properly initialized timer on init
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Limit ITARGETSR bits to number of VCPUs
  KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API
  KVM: nVMX: invvpid handling improvements
  KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit
  KVM: nVMX: introduce nested_vmx_load_cr3 and call it on vmentry
  KVM: nVMX: propagate errors from prepare_vmcs02
  KVM: nVMX: fix CR3 load if L2 uses PAE paging and EPT
  KVM: nVMX: load GUEST_EFER after GUEST_CR0 during emulated VM-entry
  KVM: nVMX: generate MSR_IA32_CR{0,4}_FIXED1 from guest CPUID
  KVM: nVMX: fix checks on CR{0,4} during virtual VMX operation
  KVM: nVMX: support restore of VMX capability MSRs
  KVM: nVMX: generate non-true VMX MSRs based on true versions
  KVM: x86: Do not clear RFLAGS.TF when a singlestep trap occurs.
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_skip_emulated_instruction and use it.
  KVM: VMX: Move skip_emulated_instruction out of nested_vmx_check_vmcs12
  KVM: VMX: Reorder some skip_emulated_instruction calls
  KVM: x86: Add a return value to kvm_emulate_cpuid
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt
  improvements.

  x86:
   - userspace can now hide nested VMX features from guests
   - nested VMX can now run Hyper-V in a guest
   - support for AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_FMAPS in KVM
   - infrastructure support for virtual Intel GPUs.

  PPC:
   - support for KVM guests on POWER9
   - improved support for interrupt polling
   - optimizations and cleanups.

  s390:
   - two small optimizations, more stuff is in flight and will be in
     4.11.

  ARM:
   - support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
  arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
  KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Check for properly initialized timer on init
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Limit ITARGETSR bits to number of VCPUs
  KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API
  KVM: nVMX: invvpid handling improvements
  KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit
  KVM: nVMX: introduce nested_vmx_load_cr3 and call it on vmentry
  KVM: nVMX: propagate errors from prepare_vmcs02
  KVM: nVMX: fix CR3 load if L2 uses PAE paging and EPT
  KVM: nVMX: load GUEST_EFER after GUEST_CR0 during emulated VM-entry
  KVM: nVMX: generate MSR_IA32_CR{0,4}_FIXED1 from guest CPUID
  KVM: nVMX: fix checks on CR{0,4} during virtual VMX operation
  KVM: nVMX: support restore of VMX capability MSRs
  KVM: nVMX: generate non-true VMX MSRs based on true versions
  KVM: x86: Do not clear RFLAGS.TF when a singlestep trap occurs.
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_skip_emulated_instruction and use it.
  KVM: VMX: Move skip_emulated_instruction out of nested_vmx_check_vmcs12
  KVM: VMX: Reorder some skip_emulated_instruction calls
  KVM: x86: Add a return value to kvm_emulate_cpuid
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T21:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T21:49:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher
     robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc.
     (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with
     the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski)

   - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support
     infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela,
     He Chen)

   - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov)

   - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov)

   - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov)

   - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86
  x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size
  x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible
  selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu()
  x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
  x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl()
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features
  x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf()
  x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions
  x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
  x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success
  x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
  x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion
  x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
  x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails
  x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful
  mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()
  x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher
     robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc.
     (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with
     the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski)

   - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support
     infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela,
     He Chen)

   - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov)

   - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov)

   - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov)

   - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86
  x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size
  x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible
  selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu()
  x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
  x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl()
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features
  x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf()
  x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions
  x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
  x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success
  x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
  x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion
  x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
  x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails
  x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful
  mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()
  x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
  ...
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