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<title>x86/cpu/intel: Detect TME keyid bits before setting MTRR mask registers</title>
<updated>2024-02-26T16:16:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-31T23:09:02+00:00</published>
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MKTME repurposes the high bit of physical address to key id for encryption
key and, even though MAXPHYADDR in CPUID[0x80000008] remains the same,
the valid bits in the MTRR mask register are based on the reduced number
of physical address bits.

detect_tme() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c detects TME and subtracts
it from the total usable physical bits, but it is called too late.
Move the call to early_init_intel() so that it is called in setup_arch(),
before MTRRs are setup.

This fixes boot on TDX-enabled systems, which until now only worked with
"disable_mtrr_cleanup".  Without the patch, the values written to the
MTRRs mask registers were 52-bit wide (e.g. 0x000fffff_80000800) and
the writes failed; with the patch, the values are 46-bit wide, which
matches the reduced MAXPHYADDR that is shown in /proc/cpuinfo.

Reported-by: Zixi Chen &lt;zixchen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131230902.1867092-3-pbonzini%40redhat.com
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MKTME repurposes the high bit of physical address to key id for encryption
key and, even though MAXPHYADDR in CPUID[0x80000008] remains the same,
the valid bits in the MTRR mask register are based on the reduced number
of physical address bits.

detect_tme() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c detects TME and subtracts
it from the total usable physical bits, but it is called too late.
Move the call to early_init_intel() so that it is called in setup_arch(),
before MTRRs are setup.

This fixes boot on TDX-enabled systems, which until now only worked with
"disable_mtrr_cleanup".  Without the patch, the values written to the
MTRRs mask registers were 52-bit wide (e.g. 0x000fffff_80000800) and
the writes failed; with the patch, the values are 46-bit wide, which
matches the reduced MAXPHYADDR that is shown in /proc/cpuinfo.

Reported-by: Zixi Chen &lt;zixchen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131230902.1867092-3-pbonzini%40redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch/x86: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T22:22:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T11:30:38+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table. This
removal is safe because register_sysctl_init and register_sysctl
implicitly use the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt; # for x86
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table. This
removal is safe because register_sysctl_init and register_sysctl
implicitly use the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt; # for x86
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Remove pointless evaluation of x86_coreid_bits</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T12:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T08:18:36+00:00</published>
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cpuinfo_x86::x86_coreid_bits is only used by the AMD numa topology code. No
point in evaluating it on non AMD systems.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814085112.687588373@linutronix.de

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cpuinfo_x86::x86_coreid_bits is only used by the AMD numa topology code. No
point in evaluating it on non AMD systems.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814085112.687588373@linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Include vendor headers into microcode.h</title>
<updated>2023-08-13T16:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashok Raj</name>
<email>ashok.raj@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-12T19:58:42+00:00</published>
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Currently vendor specific headers are included explicitly when used in
common code. Instead, include the vendor specific headers in
microcode.h, and include that in all usages.

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.776541545@linutronix.de
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Currently vendor specific headers are included explicitly when used in
common code. Instead, include the vendor specific headers in
microcode.h, and include that in all usages.

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.776541545@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/intel: Move microcode functions out of cpu/intel.c</title>
<updated>2023-08-13T16:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-12T19:58:41+00:00</published>
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There is really no point to have that in the CPUID evaluation code. Move it
into the Intel-specific microcode handling along with the data
structures, defines and helpers required by it. The exports need to stay
for IFS.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.719202319@linutronix.de
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There is really no point to have that in the CPUID evaluation code. Move it
into the Intel-specific microcode handling along with the data
structures, defines and helpers required by it. The exports need to stay
for IFS.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.719202319@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T18:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-29T10:14:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=48380368dec14859723b9e3fbd43e042638d9a76'/>
<id>48380368dec14859723b9e3fbd43e042638d9a76</id>
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Fundamentally semaphores are a counted primitive, but
DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() does not expose this and explicitly creates a
binary semaphore.

Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument and use that in the
few places that open-coded it using __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
[mcgrof: add some tribal knowledge about why some folks prefer
 binary sempahores over mutexes]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Fundamentally semaphores are a counted primitive, but
DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() does not expose this and explicitly creates a
binary semaphore.

Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument and use that in the
few places that open-coded it using __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
[mcgrof: add some tribal knowledge about why some folks prefer
 binary sempahores over mutexes]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/split_lock: Enumerate architectural split lock disable bit</title>
<updated>2023-03-16T10:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T01:19:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d7ce15e1d4162ab5e56dead10d4ae69a6b5c8ee8'/>
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The December 2022 edition of the Intel Instruction Set Extensions manual
defined that the split lock disable bit in the IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR
is (and retrospectively always has been) architectural.

Remove all the model specific checks except for Ice Lake variants which are
still needed because these CPU models do not enumerate presence of the
IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR.

Originally-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220701131958.687066-1-fenghua.yu@intel.com/t/#mada243bee0915532a6adef6a9e32d244d1a9aef4
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The December 2022 edition of the Intel Instruction Set Extensions manual
defined that the split lock disable bit in the IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR
is (and retrospectively always has been) architectural.

Remove all the model specific checks except for Ice Lake variants which are
still needed because these CPU models do not enumerate presence of the
IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR.

Originally-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220701131958.687066-1-fenghua.yu@intel.com/t/#mada243bee0915532a6adef6a9e32d244d1a9aef4
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:05:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a70210f41566131f88d31583f96e36cb7f5d2ad0'/>
<id>a70210f41566131f88d31583f96e36cb7f5d2ad0</id>
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Pull x86 microcode and IFS updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "The IFS (In-Field Scan) stuff goes through tip because the IFS driver
  uses the same structures and similar functionality as the microcode
  loader and it made sense to route it all through this branch so that
  there are no conflicts.

   - Add support for multiple testing sequences to the Intel In-Field
     Scan driver in order to be able to run multiple different test
     patterns. Rework things and remove the BROKEN dependency so that
     the driver can be enabled (Jithu Joseph)

   - Remove the subsys interface usage in the microcode loader because
     it is not really needed

   - A couple of smaller fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not print microcode revision and processor flags
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add missing kernel-doc entry
  Revert "platform/x86/intel/ifs: Mark as BROKEN"
  Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove reload sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata validation
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata support
  x86/microcode/intel: Use a reserved field for metasize
  x86/microcode/intel: Add hdr_type to intel_microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Use appropriate type in microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse find_matching_signature()
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove memory allocation from load path
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove image loading during init
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Return a more appropriate error code
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove unused selection
  x86/microcode: Drop struct ucode_cpu_info.valid
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 microcode and IFS updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "The IFS (In-Field Scan) stuff goes through tip because the IFS driver
  uses the same structures and similar functionality as the microcode
  loader and it made sense to route it all through this branch so that
  there are no conflicts.

   - Add support for multiple testing sequences to the Intel In-Field
     Scan driver in order to be able to run multiple different test
     patterns. Rework things and remove the BROKEN dependency so that
     the driver can be enabled (Jithu Joseph)

   - Remove the subsys interface usage in the microcode loader because
     it is not really needed

   - A couple of smaller fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not print microcode revision and processor flags
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add missing kernel-doc entry
  Revert "platform/x86/intel/ifs: Mark as BROKEN"
  Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove reload sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata validation
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata support
  x86/microcode/intel: Use a reserved field for metasize
  x86/microcode/intel: Add hdr_type to intel_microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Use appropriate type in microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse find_matching_signature()
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove memory allocation from load path
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove image loading during init
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Return a more appropriate error code
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove unused selection
  x86/microcode: Drop struct ucode_cpu_info.valid
  ...
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