<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c, branch v5.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-11T02:07:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-11T02:07:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=97d052ea3fa853b9aabcc4baca1a605cb1188611'/>
<id>97d052ea3fa853b9aabcc4baca1a605cb1188611</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of locking fixes and updates:

   - Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
     various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
     validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.

   - The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
     above fallout.

     seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
     serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
     per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
     cannot validate that the lock is held.

     This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
     sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
     initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
     writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
     and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
     the lock is held.

     Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
     required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
     is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
     of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
     been moved up.

     Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
     which have been addressed already independent of this.

     While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
     kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
     the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
     the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
     storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
     seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
     reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.

   - Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
     initializers"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
  locking, arch/ia64: Reduce &lt;asm/smp.h&gt; header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new &lt;asm/xtp.h&gt; header
  x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from &lt;asm/smp.h&gt;
  seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
  seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
  seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
  hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
  netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
  netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of locking fixes and updates:

   - Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
     various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
     validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.

   - The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
     above fallout.

     seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
     serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
     per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
     cannot validate that the lock is held.

     This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
     sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
     initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
     writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
     and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
     the lock is held.

     Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
     required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
     is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
     of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
     been moved up.

     Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
     which have been addressed already independent of this.

     While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
     kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
     the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
     the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
     storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
     seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
     reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.

   - Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
     initializers"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
  locking, arch/ia64: Reduce &lt;asm/smp.h&gt; header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new &lt;asm/xtp.h&gt; header
  x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from &lt;asm/smp.h&gt;
  seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
  seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
  seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
  seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
  hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
  xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
  netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
  netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from &lt;asm/smp.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T14:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T12:34:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=13c01139b17163c9b2aa543a9c39f8bbc875b625'/>
<id>13c01139b17163c9b2aa543a9c39f8bbc875b625</id>
<content type='text'>
The APIC headers are relatively complex and bring in additional
header dependencies - while smp.h is a relatively simple header
included from high level headers.

Remove the dependency and add in the missing #include's in .c
files where they gained it indirectly before.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The APIC headers are relatively complex and bring in additional
header dependencies - while smp.h is a relatively simple header
included from high level headers.

Remove the dependency and add in the missing #include's in .c
files where they gained it indirectly before.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>initrd: remove support for multiple floppies</title>
<updated>2020-07-30T06:22:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T08:23:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c8376994c86c4eb02b9a1032cd3a8d44c911d671'/>
<id>c8376994c86c4eb02b9a1032cd3a8d44c911d671</id>
<content type='text'>
Remove the special handling for multiple floppies in the initrd code.
No one should be using floppies for booting these days. (famous last
words..)

Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Remove the special handling for multiple floppies in the initrd code.
No one should be using floppies for booting these days. (famous last
words..)

Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical address</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T07:28:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ronald G. Minnich</name>
<email>rminnich@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-26T01:10:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=694cfd87b0c8a48af2f1afb225563571c0b975c4'/>
<id>694cfd87b0c8a48af2f1afb225563571c0b975c4</id>
<content type='text'>
Add the initrdmem option:

  initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]

which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.

This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.

One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
is.

This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
and size.

At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
should be available.

Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.

Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.

For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:

  initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000

which specifies a location and size.

 [ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich &lt;rminnich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add the initrdmem option:

  initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]

which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.

This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.

One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
is.

This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
and size.

At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
should be available.

Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.

Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.

For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:

  initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000

which specifies a location and size.

 [ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich &lt;rminnich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma</title>
<updated>2020-04-10T22:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-10T21:32:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf11e85fc08cc6a4fe3ac2ba2e610c962bf20bc3'/>
<id>cf11e85fc08cc6a4fe3ac2ba2e610c962bf20bc3</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages.

However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading,
when the majority of memory is free.  After some time the memory gets
fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB
block are getting close to zero.  Even dropping caches manually doesn't
help a lot.

At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex.  At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.

The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
   as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
   cma allocator and the dedicated cma area

In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a
high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody
is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs,
etc.

* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
  Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
  numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.

Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
   pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument

2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
   echo 10 &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.

x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.

The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan
Bakirov and Randy Dunlap.  It also contains ideas and suggestions
proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz.  Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler &lt;andreas.schaufler@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aslan Bakirov &lt;aslan@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages.

However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading,
when the majority of memory is free.  After some time the memory gets
fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB
block are getting close to zero.  Even dropping caches manually doesn't
help a lot.

At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex.  At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.

The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
   as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
   cma allocator and the dedicated cma area

In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a
high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody
is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs,
etc.

* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
  Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
  numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.

Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
   pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument

2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
   echo 10 &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.

x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.

The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan
Bakirov and Randy Dunlap.  It also contains ideas and suggestions
proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz.  Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler &lt;andreas.schaufler@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aslan Bakirov &lt;aslan@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Fix static memory detection</title>
<updated>2020-03-19T10:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T02:11:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bac59d18c7018a2fd5e800a1e72a8271bf404977'/>
<id>bac59d18c7018a2fd5e800a1e72a8271bf404977</id>
<content type='text'>
When booting x86 images in qemu, the following warning is seen randomly
if DEBUG_LOCKDEP is enabled.

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1119
	  lockdep_register_key+0xc0/0x100

static_obj() returns true if an address is between _stext and _end.

On x86, this includes the brk memory space. Problem is that this memory
block is not static on x86; its unused portions are released after init
and can be allocated. This results in the observed warning if a lockdep
object is allocated from this memory.

Solve the problem by implementing arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for
x86 and have it return true if an address is within the released memory
range.

The same problem was solved for s390 with commit

  7a5da02de8d6e ("locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in static_obj()"),

which introduced arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed().

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200131021159.9178-1-linux@roeck-us.net
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When booting x86 images in qemu, the following warning is seen randomly
if DEBUG_LOCKDEP is enabled.

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1119
	  lockdep_register_key+0xc0/0x100

static_obj() returns true if an address is between _stext and _end.

On x86, this includes the brk memory space. Problem is that this memory
block is not static on x86; its unused portions are released after init
and can be allocated. This results in the observed warning if a lockdep
object is allocated from this memory.

Solve the problem by implementing arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for
x86 and have it return true if an address is within the released memory
range.

The same problem was solved for s390 with commit

  7a5da02de8d6e ("locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in static_obj()"),

which introduced arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed().

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200131021159.9178-1-linux@roeck-us.net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ccaaaf6fe5a5e1fffca5cca0f3fc4ec84d7ae752'/>
<id>ccaaaf6fe5a5e1fffca5cca0f3fc4ec84d7ae752</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

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

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

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

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

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T18:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-29T18:13:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ca9b5b6283984f67434cee810f3b08e19630226d'/>
<id>ca9b5b6283984f67434cee810f3b08e19630226d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are the big set of tty and serial driver updates for 5.6-rc1

  Included in here are:
   - dummy_con cleanups (touches lots of arch code)
   - sysrq logic cleanups (touches lots of serial drivers)
   - samsung driver fixes (wasn't really being built)
   - conmakeshash move to tty subdir out of scripts
   - lots of small tty/serial driver updates

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

* tag 'tty-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
  tty: n_hdlc: Use flexible-array member and struct_size() helper
  tty: baudrate: SPARC supports few more baud rates
  tty: baudrate: Synchronise baud_table[] and baud_bits[]
  tty: serial: meson_uart: Add support for kernel debugger
  serial: imx: fix a race condition in receive path
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Document struct bcm2835aux_data
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Use generic remapping code
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Allocate uart_8250_port on stack
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Suppress register_port error on -EPROBE_DEFER
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Suppress clk_get error on -EPROBE_DEFER
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Fix line mismatch on driver unbind
  serial_core: Remove unused member in uart_port
  vt: Correct comment documenting do_take_over_console()
  vt: Delete comment referencing non-existent unbind_con_driver()
  arch/xtensa/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/x86/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/unicore32/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/sparc/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/sh/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/s390/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are the big set of tty and serial driver updates for 5.6-rc1

  Included in here are:
   - dummy_con cleanups (touches lots of arch code)
   - sysrq logic cleanups (touches lots of serial drivers)
   - samsung driver fixes (wasn't really being built)
   - conmakeshash move to tty subdir out of scripts
   - lots of small tty/serial driver updates

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

* tag 'tty-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
  tty: n_hdlc: Use flexible-array member and struct_size() helper
  tty: baudrate: SPARC supports few more baud rates
  tty: baudrate: Synchronise baud_table[] and baud_bits[]
  tty: serial: meson_uart: Add support for kernel debugger
  serial: imx: fix a race condition in receive path
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Document struct bcm2835aux_data
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Use generic remapping code
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Allocate uart_8250_port on stack
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Suppress register_port error on -EPROBE_DEFER
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Suppress clk_get error on -EPROBE_DEFER
  serial: 8250_bcm2835aux: Fix line mismatch on driver unbind
  serial_core: Remove unused member in uart_port
  vt: Correct comment documenting do_take_over_console()
  vt: Delete comment referencing non-existent unbind_con_driver()
  arch/xtensa/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/x86/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/unicore32/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/sparc/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/sh/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  arch/s390/setup: Drop dummy_con initialization
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-01-28T17:03:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-28T17:03:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=634cd4b6afe15dca8df02bcba242b9b0c5e9b5a5'/>
<id>634cd4b6afe15dca8df02bcba242b9b0c5e9b5a5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cleanup of the GOP [graphics output] handling code in the EFI stub

   - Complete refactoring of the mixed mode handling in the x86 EFI stub

   - Overhaul of the x86 EFI boot/runtime code

   - Increase robustness for mixed mode code

   - Add the ability to disable DMA at the root port level in the EFI
     stub

   - Get rid of RWX mappings in the EFI memory map and page tables,
     where possible

   - Move the support code for the old EFI memory mapping style into its
     only user, the SGI UV1+ support code.

   - plus misc fixes, updates, smaller cleanups.

  ... and due to interactions with the RWX changes, another round of PAT
  cleanups make a guest appearance via the EFI tree - with no side
  effects intended"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  efi/x86: Disable instrumentation in the EFI runtime handling code
  efi/libstub/x86: Fix EFI server boot failure
  efi/x86: Disallow efi=old_map in mixed mode
  x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld
  efi/x86: avoid KASAN false positives when accessing the 1: 1 mapping
  efi: Fix handling of multiple efi_fake_mem= entries
  efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks
  efi: Add tracking for dynamically allocated memmaps
  efi: Add a flags parameter to efi_memory_map
  efi: Fix comment for efi_mem_type() wrt absent physical addresses
  efi/arm: Defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems
  efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines
  efi/x86: Avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM
  efi/x86: Don't map the entire kernel text RW for mixed mode
  x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd
  efi/libstub/x86: Fix unused-variable warning
  efi/libstub/x86: Use mandatory 16-byte stack alignment in mixed mode
  efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()
  efi: Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot
  efi/x86: Allow translating 64-bit arguments for mixed mode calls
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cleanup of the GOP [graphics output] handling code in the EFI stub

   - Complete refactoring of the mixed mode handling in the x86 EFI stub

   - Overhaul of the x86 EFI boot/runtime code

   - Increase robustness for mixed mode code

   - Add the ability to disable DMA at the root port level in the EFI
     stub

   - Get rid of RWX mappings in the EFI memory map and page tables,
     where possible

   - Move the support code for the old EFI memory mapping style into its
     only user, the SGI UV1+ support code.

   - plus misc fixes, updates, smaller cleanups.

  ... and due to interactions with the RWX changes, another round of PAT
  cleanups make a guest appearance via the EFI tree - with no side
  effects intended"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  efi/x86: Disable instrumentation in the EFI runtime handling code
  efi/libstub/x86: Fix EFI server boot failure
  efi/x86: Disallow efi=old_map in mixed mode
  x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld
  efi/x86: avoid KASAN false positives when accessing the 1: 1 mapping
  efi: Fix handling of multiple efi_fake_mem= entries
  efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks
  efi: Add tracking for dynamically allocated memmaps
  efi: Add a flags parameter to efi_memory_map
  efi: Fix comment for efi_mem_type() wrt absent physical addresses
  efi/arm: Defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems
  efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines
  efi/x86: Avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM
  efi/x86: Don't map the entire kernel text RW for mixed mode
  x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd
  efi/libstub/x86: Fix unused-variable warning
  efi/libstub/x86: Use mandatory 16-byte stack alignment in mixed mode
  efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()
  efi: Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot
  efi/x86: Allow translating 64-bit arguments for mixed mode calls
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T18:41:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T18:41:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=45fc24e89b7cc2e227b2f03d99dda0a2204bf383'/>
<id>45fc24e89b7cc2e227b2f03d99dda0a2204bf383</id>
<content type='text'>
From: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;

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

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

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

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

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
