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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c, branch v3.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86, CPU, AMD: Drop useless label</title>
<updated>2013-04-16T09:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T15:57:46+00:00</published>
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All we want to do is return from this function so stop jumping around
like a flea for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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All we want to do is return from this function so stop jumping around
like a flea for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, AMD: Correct {rd,wr}msr_amd_safe warnings</title>
<updated>2013-04-16T09:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T15:57:45+00:00</published>
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The idea with those routines is to slowly phase them out and not call
them on anything else besides K8. They even have a check for that which,
when called too early, fails. Let me explain:

It gets the cpuinfo_x86 pointer from the per_cpu array and when this
happens for cpu0, before its boot_cpu_data has been copied back to the
per_cpu array in smp_store_boot_cpu_info(), we get an empty struct and
thus the check fails.

Use boot_cpu_data directly instead.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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The idea with those routines is to slowly phase them out and not call
them on anything else besides K8. They even have a check for that which,
when called too early, fails. Let me explain:

It gets the cpuinfo_x86 pointer from the per_cpu array and when this
happens for cpu0, before its boot_cpu_data has been copied back to the
per_cpu array in smp_store_boot_cpu_info(), we get an empty struct and
thus the check fails.

Use boot_cpu_data directly instead.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365436666-9837-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 400</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:28+00:00</published>
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<id>7d7dc116e56c8a1ba4beb36d06a77a48fe5f750b</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert AMD erratum 400 to the bug infrastructure. Then, retract all
exports for modules since they're not needed now and make the AMD
erratum checking machinery local to amd.c. Use forward declarations to
avoid shuffling too much code around needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Convert AMD erratum 400 to the bug infrastructure. Then, retract all
exports for modules since they're not needed now and make the AMD
erratum checking machinery local to amd.c. Use forward declarations to
avoid shuffling too much code around needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 383</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e6ee94d58dfd06ec64c55f91581f00d4f98bf1f6'/>
<id>e6ee94d58dfd06ec64c55f91581f00d4f98bf1f6</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert the AMD erratum 383 testing code to the bug infrastructure. This
allows keeping the AMD-specific erratum testing machinery private to
amd.c and not export symbols to modules needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Convert the AMD erratum 383 testing code to the bug infrastructure. This
allows keeping the AMD-specific erratum testing machinery private to
amd.c and not export symbols to modules needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2013-02-25T23:41:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-25T23:41:43+00:00</published>
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Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether
  to disable lockdep, but it's a mechanical change."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Add option to not sign modules during modules_install
  MODSIGN: Add -s &lt;signature&gt; option to sign-file
  MODSIGN: Specify the hash algorithm on sign-file command line
  MODSIGN: Simplify Makefile with a Kconfig helper
  module: clean up load_module a little more.
  modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections
  module: constify within_module_*
  taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
  module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.
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Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether
  to disable lockdep, but it's a mechanical change."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Add option to not sign modules during modules_install
  MODSIGN: Add -s &lt;signature&gt; option to sign-file
  MODSIGN: Specify the hash algorithm on sign-file command line
  MODSIGN: Simplify Makefile with a Kconfig helper
  module: clean up load_module a little more.
  modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections
  module: constify within_module_*
  taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
  module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2ef14f465b9e096531343f5b734cffc5f759f4a6'/>
<id>2ef14f465b9e096531343f5b734cffc5f759f4a6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:03:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:03:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cb715a836642e0ec69350670d1c2f800f3e2d2e4'/>
<id>cb715a836642e0ec69350670d1c2f800f3e2d2e4</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 cpu updates from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a corrected attempt at the x86/cpu branch, this time with the
  fixes in that makes it not break on KVM (current or past), or any
  other virtualizer which traps on this configuration.

  Again, the biggest change here is enabling the WC+ memory type on AMD
  processors, if the BIOS doesn't."

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: Add MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2 to the list of ignored MSRs
  x86, cpu, amd: Fix WC+ workaround for older virtual hosts
  x86, AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors
  x86, AMD: Clean up init_amd()
  x86/process: Change %8s to %s for pr_warn() in release_thread()
  x86/cpu/hotplug: Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a corrected attempt at the x86/cpu branch, this time with the
  fixes in that makes it not break on KVM (current or past), or any
  other virtualizer which traps on this configuration.

  Again, the biggest change here is enabling the WC+ memory type on AMD
  processors, if the BIOS doesn't."

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: Add MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2 to the list of ignored MSRs
  x86, cpu, amd: Fix WC+ workaround for older virtual hosts
  x86, AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors
  x86, AMD: Clean up init_amd()
  x86/process: Change %8s to %s for pr_warn() in release_thread()
  x86/cpu/hotplug: Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu, amd: Fix WC+ workaround for older virtual hosts</title>
<updated>2013-02-19T18:44:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-19T18:33:12+00:00</published>
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The WC+ workaround for F10h introduces a new MSR and kvm host #GPs
on accesses to unknown MSRs if paravirt is not compiled in. Use the
exception-handling MSR accessors so as not to break 3.8 and later guests
booting on older hosts.

Remove a redundant family check while at it.

Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361298793-31834-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The WC+ workaround for F10h introduces a new MSR and kvm host #GPs
on accesses to unknown MSRs if paravirt is not compiled in. Use the
exception-handling MSR accessors so as not to break 3.8 and later guests
booting on older hosts.

Remove a redundant family check while at it.

Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361298793-31834-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-29T21:32:49+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In some cases BIOS may not enable WC+ memory type on family 10
processors, instead converting what would be WC+ memory to CD type.
On guests using nested pages this could result in performance
degradation. This patch enables WC+.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359495169-23278-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
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In some cases BIOS may not enable WC+ memory type on family 10
processors, instead converting what would be WC+ memory to CD type.
On guests using nested pages this could result in performance
degradation. This patch enables WC+.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359495169-23278-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, AMD: Clean up init_amd()</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:35:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-29T21:32:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6bf08a8dcd1ef13e542f08fc3b1ce6cf64ae63b6'/>
<id>6bf08a8dcd1ef13e542f08fc3b1ce6cf64ae63b6</id>
<content type='text'>
Clean up multiple declarations of variable used for rd/wrmsr.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359495136-23244-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
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Clean up multiple declarations of variable used for rd/wrmsr.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359495136-23244-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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