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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/spectre: Add missing family 6 check to microcode check</title>
<updated>2018-08-27T08:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T17:03:51+00:00</published>
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The check for Spectre microcodes does not check for family 6, only the
model numbers.

Add a family 6 check to avoid ambiguity with other families.

Fixes: a5b296636453 ("x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes")
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824170351.34874-2-andi@firstfloor.org

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The check for Spectre microcodes does not check for family 6, only the
model numbers.

Add a family 6 check to avoid ambiguity with other families.

Fixes: a5b296636453 ("x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes")
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824170351.34874-2-andi@firstfloor.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T16:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T16:46:06+00:00</published>
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Merge L1 Terminal Fault fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "L1TF, aka L1 Terminal Fault, is yet another speculative hardware
  engineering trainwreck. It's a hardware vulnerability which allows
  unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the
  Level 1 Data Cache when the page table entry controlling the virtual
  address, which is used for the access, has the Present bit cleared or
  other reserved bits set.

  If an instruction accesses a virtual address for which the relevant
  page table entry (PTE) has the Present bit cleared or other reserved
  bits set, then speculative execution ignores the invalid PTE and loads
  the referenced data if it is present in the Level 1 Data Cache, as if
  the page referenced by the address bits in the PTE was still present
  and accessible.

  While this is a purely speculative mechanism and the instruction will
  raise a page fault when it is retired eventually, the pure act of
  loading the data and making it available to other speculative
  instructions opens up the opportunity for side channel attacks to
  unprivileged malicious code, similar to the Meltdown attack.

  While Meltdown breaks the user space to kernel space protection, L1TF
  allows to attack any physical memory address in the system and the
  attack works across all protection domains. It allows an attack of SGX
  and also works from inside virtual machines because the speculation
  bypasses the extended page table (EPT) protection mechanism.

  The assoicated CVEs are: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646

  The mitigations provided by this pull request include:

   - Host side protection by inverting the upper address bits of a non
     present page table entry so the entry points to uncacheable memory.

   - Hypervisor protection by flushing L1 Data Cache on VMENTER.

   - SMT (HyperThreading) control knobs, which allow to 'turn off' SMT
     by offlining the sibling CPU threads. The knobs are available on
     the kernel command line and at runtime via sysfs

   - Control knobs for the hypervisor mitigation, related to L1D flush
     and SMT control. The knobs are available on the kernel command line
     and at runtime via sysfs

   - Extensive documentation about L1TF including various degrees of
     mitigations.

  Thanks to all people who have contributed to this in various ways -
  patches, review, testing, backporting - and the fruitful, sometimes
  heated, but at the end constructive discussions.

  There is work in progress to provide other forms of mitigations, which
  might be less horrible performance wise for a particular kind of
  workloads, but this is not yet ready for consumption due to their
  complexity and limitations"

* 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled
  tools headers: Synchronise x86 cpufeatures.h for L1TF additions
  x86/mm/kmmio: Make the tracer robust against L1TF
  x86/mm/pat: Make set_memory_np() L1TF safe
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Make pmd/pud_mknotpresent() invert
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings
  cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation
  KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability
  Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()
  x86/irq: Let interrupt handlers set kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86: Don't include linux/irq.h from asm/hardirq.h
  x86/KVM/VMX: Introduce per-host-cpu analogue of l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16
  x86/KVM/VMX: Move the l1tf_flush_l1d test to vmx_l1d_flush()
  x86/KVM/VMX: Replace 'vmx_l1d_flush_always' with 'vmx_l1d_flush_cond'
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d to true from vmx_l1d_flush()
  cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS
  ...
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Merge L1 Terminal Fault fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "L1TF, aka L1 Terminal Fault, is yet another speculative hardware
  engineering trainwreck. It's a hardware vulnerability which allows
  unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the
  Level 1 Data Cache when the page table entry controlling the virtual
  address, which is used for the access, has the Present bit cleared or
  other reserved bits set.

  If an instruction accesses a virtual address for which the relevant
  page table entry (PTE) has the Present bit cleared or other reserved
  bits set, then speculative execution ignores the invalid PTE and loads
  the referenced data if it is present in the Level 1 Data Cache, as if
  the page referenced by the address bits in the PTE was still present
  and accessible.

  While this is a purely speculative mechanism and the instruction will
  raise a page fault when it is retired eventually, the pure act of
  loading the data and making it available to other speculative
  instructions opens up the opportunity for side channel attacks to
  unprivileged malicious code, similar to the Meltdown attack.

  While Meltdown breaks the user space to kernel space protection, L1TF
  allows to attack any physical memory address in the system and the
  attack works across all protection domains. It allows an attack of SGX
  and also works from inside virtual machines because the speculation
  bypasses the extended page table (EPT) protection mechanism.

  The assoicated CVEs are: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646

  The mitigations provided by this pull request include:

   - Host side protection by inverting the upper address bits of a non
     present page table entry so the entry points to uncacheable memory.

   - Hypervisor protection by flushing L1 Data Cache on VMENTER.

   - SMT (HyperThreading) control knobs, which allow to 'turn off' SMT
     by offlining the sibling CPU threads. The knobs are available on
     the kernel command line and at runtime via sysfs

   - Control knobs for the hypervisor mitigation, related to L1D flush
     and SMT control. The knobs are available on the kernel command line
     and at runtime via sysfs

   - Extensive documentation about L1TF including various degrees of
     mitigations.

  Thanks to all people who have contributed to this in various ways -
  patches, review, testing, backporting - and the fruitful, sometimes
  heated, but at the end constructive discussions.

  There is work in progress to provide other forms of mitigations, which
  might be less horrible performance wise for a particular kind of
  workloads, but this is not yet ready for consumption due to their
  complexity and limitations"

* 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled
  tools headers: Synchronise x86 cpufeatures.h for L1TF additions
  x86/mm/kmmio: Make the tracer robust against L1TF
  x86/mm/pat: Make set_memory_np() L1TF safe
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Make pmd/pud_mknotpresent() invert
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings
  cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation
  KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability
  Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()
  x86/irq: Let interrupt handlers set kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86: Don't include linux/irq.h from asm/hardirq.h
  x86/KVM/VMX: Introduce per-host-cpu analogue of l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16
  x86/KVM/VMX: Move the l1tf_flush_l1d test to vmx_l1d_flush()
  x86/KVM/VMX: Replace 'vmx_l1d_flush_always' with 'vmx_l1d_flush_cond'
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d to true from vmx_l1d_flush()
  cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Add EPT_AD feature bit</title>
<updated>2018-08-03T10:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Feiner</name>
<email>pfeiner@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T18:06:57+00:00</published>
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Some Intel processors have an EPT feature whereby the accessed &amp; dirty bits
in EPT entries can be updated by HW. MSR IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP exposes the
presence of this capability.

There is no point in trying to use that new feature bit in the VMX code as
VMX needs to read the MSR anyway to access other bits, but having the
feature bit for EPT_AD in place helps virtualization management as it
exposes "ept_ad" in /proc/cpuinfo/$proc/flags if the feature is present.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Shier &lt;pshier@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180801180657.138051-1-pshier@google.com

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Some Intel processors have an EPT feature whereby the accessed &amp; dirty bits
in EPT entries can be updated by HW. MSR IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP exposes the
presence of this capability.

There is no point in trying to use that new feature bit in the VMX code as
VMX needs to read the MSR anyway to access other bits, but having the
feature bit for EPT_AD in place helps virtualization management as it
exposes "ept_ad" in /proc/cpuinfo/$proc/flags if the feature is present.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Shier &lt;pshier@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180801180657.138051-1-pshier@google.com

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu/intel: Evaluate smp_num_siblings early</title>
<updated>2018-06-21T12:20:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T23:00:55+00:00</published>
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Make use of the new early detection function to initialize smp_num_siblings
on the boot cpu before the MP-Table or ACPI/MADT scan happens. That's
required for force disabling SMT.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Make use of the new early detection function to initialize smp_num_siblings
on the boot cpu before the MP-Table or ACPI/MADT scan happens. That's
required for force disabling SMT.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T01:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T01:19:18+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Centaur CPU updates (David Wang)

 - AMD and other CPU topology enumeration improvements and fixes
   (Borislav Petkov, Thomas Gleixner, Suravee Suthikulpanit)

 - Continued 5-level paging work (Kirill A. Shutemov)

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Mark __pgtable_l5_enabled __initdata
  x86/mm: Mark p4d_offset() __always_inline
  x86/mm: Introduce the 'no5lvl' kernel parameter
  x86/mm: Stop pretending pgtable_l5_enabled is a variable
  x86/mm: Unify pgtable_l5_enabled usage in early boot code
  x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix trampoline page table address calculation
  x86/CPU: Move x86_cpuinfo::x86_max_cores assignment to detect_num_cpu_cores()
  x86/Centaur: Report correct CPU/cache topology
  x86/CPU: Move cpu_detect_cache_sizes() into init_intel_cacheinfo()
  x86/CPU: Make intel_num_cpu_cores() generic
  x86/CPU: Move cpu local function declarations to local header
  x86/CPU/AMD: Derive CPU topology from CPUID function 0xB when available
  x86/CPU: Modify detect_extended_topology() to return result
  x86/CPU/AMD: Calculate last level cache ID from number of sharing threads
  x86/CPU: Rename intel_cacheinfo.c to cacheinfo.c
  perf/events/amd/uncore: Fix amd_uncore_llc ID to use pre-defined cpu_llc_id
  x86/CPU/AMD: Have smp_num_siblings and cpu_llc_id always be present
  x86/Centaur: Initialize supported CPU features properly
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Centaur CPU updates (David Wang)

 - AMD and other CPU topology enumeration improvements and fixes
   (Borislav Petkov, Thomas Gleixner, Suravee Suthikulpanit)

 - Continued 5-level paging work (Kirill A. Shutemov)

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Mark __pgtable_l5_enabled __initdata
  x86/mm: Mark p4d_offset() __always_inline
  x86/mm: Introduce the 'no5lvl' kernel parameter
  x86/mm: Stop pretending pgtable_l5_enabled is a variable
  x86/mm: Unify pgtable_l5_enabled usage in early boot code
  x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix trampoline page table address calculation
  x86/CPU: Move x86_cpuinfo::x86_max_cores assignment to detect_num_cpu_cores()
  x86/Centaur: Report correct CPU/cache topology
  x86/CPU: Move cpu_detect_cache_sizes() into init_intel_cacheinfo()
  x86/CPU: Make intel_num_cpu_cores() generic
  x86/CPU: Move cpu local function declarations to local header
  x86/CPU/AMD: Derive CPU topology from CPUID function 0xB when available
  x86/CPU: Modify detect_extended_topology() to return result
  x86/CPU/AMD: Calculate last level cache ID from number of sharing threads
  x86/CPU: Rename intel_cacheinfo.c to cacheinfo.c
  perf/events/amd/uncore: Fix amd_uncore_llc ID to use pre-defined cpu_llc_id
  x86/CPU/AMD: Have smp_num_siblings and cpu_llc_id always be present
  x86/Centaur: Initialize supported CPU features properly
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'x86/urgent' and 'core/urgent' into x86/boot, to pick up fixes and avoid conflicts</title>
<updated>2018-05-19T06:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-19T06:18:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=177bfd725bd1b67c7254248cf19f0465d493e631'/>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle SSBD enumeration</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T15:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T18:21:36+00:00</published>
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The SSBD enumeration is similarly to the other bits magically shared
between Intel and AMD though the mechanisms are different.

Make X86_FEATURE_SSBD synthetic and set it depending on the vendor specific
features or family dependent setup.

Change the Intel bit to X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD to denote that SSBD is
controlled via MSR_SPEC_CTRL and fix up the usage sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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The SSBD enumeration is similarly to the other bits magically shared
between Intel and AMD though the mechanisms are different.

Make X86_FEATURE_SSBD synthetic and set it depending on the vendor specific
features or family dependent setup.

Change the Intel bit to X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD to denote that SSBD is
controlled via MSR_SPEC_CTRL and fix up the usage sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle MSR_SPEC_CTRL enumeration from IBRS</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T15:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T17:13:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7eb8956a7fec3c1f0abc2a5517dada99ccc8a961'/>
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The availability of the SPEC_CTRL MSR is enumerated by a CPUID bit on
Intel and implied by IBRS or STIBP support on AMD. That's just confusing
and in case an AMD CPU has IBRS not supported because the underlying
problem has been fixed but has another bit valid in the SPEC_CTRL MSR,
the thing falls apart.

Add a synthetic feature bit X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL to denote the
availability on both Intel and AMD.

While at it replace the boot_cpu_has() checks with static_cpu_has() where
possible. This prevents late microcode loading from exposing SPEC_CTRL, but
late loading is already very limited as it does not reevaluate the
mitigation options and other bits and pieces. Having static_cpu_has() is
the simplest and least fragile solution.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;

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The availability of the SPEC_CTRL MSR is enumerated by a CPUID bit on
Intel and implied by IBRS or STIBP support on AMD. That's just confusing
and in case an AMD CPU has IBRS not supported because the underlying
problem has been fixed but has another bit valid in the SPEC_CTRL MSR,
the thing falls apart.

Add a synthetic feature bit X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL to denote the
availability on both Intel and AMD.

While at it replace the boot_cpu_has() checks with static_cpu_has() where
possible. This prevents late microcode loading from exposing SPEC_CTRL, but
late loading is already very limited as it does not reevaluate the
mitigation options and other bits and pieces. Having static_cpu_has() is
the simplest and least fragile solution.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
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<title>x86/CPU: Move x86_cpuinfo::x86_max_cores assignment to detect_num_cpu_cores()</title>
<updated>2018-05-13T14:14:24+00:00</updated>
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<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2018-05-13T09:43:53+00:00</published>
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No point to have it at the call sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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No point to have it at the call sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<title>x86/CPU: Move cpu_detect_cache_sizes() into init_intel_cacheinfo()</title>
<updated>2018-05-13T14:14:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wang</name>
<email>davidwang@zhaoxin.com</email>
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<published>2018-05-03T02:32:45+00:00</published>
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There is no point in having the conditional cpu_detect_cache_sizes() call
at the callsite of init_intel_cacheinfo().

Move it into init_intel_cacheinfo() and make init_intel_cacheinfo() void.

[ tglx: Made the init_intel_cacheinfo() void as the return value was
  	pointless. Adjust changelog accordingly ]

Signed-off-by: David Wang &lt;davidwang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: lukelin@viacpu.com
Cc: qiyuanwang@zhaoxin.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: brucechang@via-alliance.com
Cc: timguo@zhaoxin.com
Cc: cooperyan@zhaoxin.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: benjaminpan@viatech.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525314766-18910-3-git-send-email-davidwang@zhaoxin.com


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There is no point in having the conditional cpu_detect_cache_sizes() call
at the callsite of init_intel_cacheinfo().

Move it into init_intel_cacheinfo() and make init_intel_cacheinfo() void.

[ tglx: Made the init_intel_cacheinfo() void as the return value was
  	pointless. Adjust changelog accordingly ]

Signed-off-by: David Wang &lt;davidwang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: lukelin@viacpu.com
Cc: qiyuanwang@zhaoxin.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: brucechang@via-alliance.com
Cc: timguo@zhaoxin.com
Cc: cooperyan@zhaoxin.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: benjaminpan@viatech.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525314766-18910-3-git-send-email-davidwang@zhaoxin.com


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