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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T19:34:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T19:34:08+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids-&gt;tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids-&gt;tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:56:34+00:00</published>
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Better ensure we actually hold the lock using lockdep than just commenting
on it.  Due to the various exported _locked interfaces it is far too easy
to get the locking wrong.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214152344.6880-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Better ensure we actually hold the lock using lockdep than just commenting
on it.  Due to the various exported _locked interfaces it is far too easy
to get the locking wrong.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214152344.6880-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T14:42:36+00:00</published>
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These fix the main idle loop and the menu cpuidle governor, clean up
  the latter, fix a mistake in the PCI bus type's support for system
  suspend and resume, fix the ondemand and conservative cpufreq
  governors, address a build issue in the system wakeup framework and
  make the ACPI C-states desciptions less confusing.

  Specifics:

   - Make the idle loop handle stopped scheduler tick correctly (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Prevent the menu cpuidle governor from letting CPUs spend too much
     time in shallow idle states when it is invoked with scheduler tick
     stopped and clean it up somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Avoid invoking the platform firmware to make the platform enter the
     ACPI S3 sleep state with suspended PCIe root ports which may
     confuse the firmware and cause it to crash (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Fix sysfs-related race in the ondemand and conservative cpufreq
     governors which may cause the system to crash if the governor
     module is removed during an update of CPU frequency limits (Henry
     Willard).

   - Select SRCU when building the system wakeup framework to avoid a
     build issue in it (zhangyi).

   - Make the descriptions of ACPI C-states vendor-neutral to avoid
     confusion (Prarit Bhargava)"

* tag 'pm-4.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpuidle: menu: Handle stopped tick more aggressively
  sched: idle: Avoid retaining the tick when it has been stopped
  PCI / ACPI / PM: Resume all bridges on suspend-to-RAM
  cpuidle: menu: Update stale polling override comment
  cpufreq: governor: Avoid accessing invalid governor_data
  x86/ACPI/cstate: Make APCI C1 FFH MWAIT C-state description vendor-neutral
  cpuidle: menu: Fix white space
  PM / sleep: wakeup: Fix build error caused by missing SRCU support
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<pre>
Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These fix the main idle loop and the menu cpuidle governor, clean up
  the latter, fix a mistake in the PCI bus type's support for system
  suspend and resume, fix the ondemand and conservative cpufreq
  governors, address a build issue in the system wakeup framework and
  make the ACPI C-states desciptions less confusing.

  Specifics:

   - Make the idle loop handle stopped scheduler tick correctly (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Prevent the menu cpuidle governor from letting CPUs spend too much
     time in shallow idle states when it is invoked with scheduler tick
     stopped and clean it up somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Avoid invoking the platform firmware to make the platform enter the
     ACPI S3 sleep state with suspended PCIe root ports which may
     confuse the firmware and cause it to crash (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Fix sysfs-related race in the ondemand and conservative cpufreq
     governors which may cause the system to crash if the governor
     module is removed during an update of CPU frequency limits (Henry
     Willard).

   - Select SRCU when building the system wakeup framework to avoid a
     build issue in it (zhangyi).

   - Make the descriptions of ACPI C-states vendor-neutral to avoid
     confusion (Prarit Bhargava)"

* tag 'pm-4.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpuidle: menu: Handle stopped tick more aggressively
  sched: idle: Avoid retaining the tick when it has been stopped
  PCI / ACPI / PM: Resume all bridges on suspend-to-RAM
  cpuidle: menu: Update stale polling override comment
  cpufreq: governor: Avoid accessing invalid governor_data
  x86/ACPI/cstate: Make APCI C1 FFH MWAIT C-state description vendor-neutral
  cpuidle: menu: Fix white space
  PM / sleep: wakeup: Fix build error caused by missing SRCU support
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-08-21T20:47:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T20:47:29+00:00</published>
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Pull core signal handling updates from Eric Biederman:
 "It was observed that a periodic timer in combination with a
  sufficiently expensive fork could prevent fork from every completing.
  This contains the changes to remove the need for that restart.

  This set of changes is split into several parts:

   - The first part makes PIDTYPE_TGID a proper pid type instead
     something only for very special cases. The part starts using
     PIDTYPE_TGID enough so that in __send_signal where signals are
     actually delivered we know if the signal is being sent to a a group
     of processes or just a single process.

   - With that prep work out of the way the logic in fork is modified so
     that fork logically makes signals received while it is running
     appear to be received after the fork completes"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (22 commits)
  signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist
  signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
  fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops
  fork: Skip setting TIF_SIGPENDING in ptrace_init_task
  signal: Add calculate_sigpending()
  fork: Unconditionally exit if a fatal signal is pending
  fork: Move and describe why the code examines PIDNS_ADDING
  signal: Push pid type down into complete_signal.
  signal: Push pid type down into __send_signal
  signal: Push pid type down into send_signal
  signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info
  signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task &amp; send_sigurg_to_task
  signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info
  signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue
  posix-timers: Noralize good_sigevent
  signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent
  pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID
  pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct
  kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl
  pids: Compute task_tgid using signal-&gt;leader_pid
  ...
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Pull core signal handling updates from Eric Biederman:
 "It was observed that a periodic timer in combination with a
  sufficiently expensive fork could prevent fork from every completing.
  This contains the changes to remove the need for that restart.

  This set of changes is split into several parts:

   - The first part makes PIDTYPE_TGID a proper pid type instead
     something only for very special cases. The part starts using
     PIDTYPE_TGID enough so that in __send_signal where signals are
     actually delivered we know if the signal is being sent to a a group
     of processes or just a single process.

   - With that prep work out of the way the logic in fork is modified so
     that fork logically makes signals received while it is running
     appear to be received after the fork completes"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (22 commits)
  signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist
  signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
  fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops
  fork: Skip setting TIF_SIGPENDING in ptrace_init_task
  signal: Add calculate_sigpending()
  fork: Unconditionally exit if a fatal signal is pending
  fork: Move and describe why the code examines PIDNS_ADDING
  signal: Push pid type down into complete_signal.
  signal: Push pid type down into __send_signal
  signal: Push pid type down into send_signal
  signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info
  signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task &amp; send_sigurg_to_task
  signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info
  signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue
  posix-timers: Noralize good_sigevent
  signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent
  pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID
  pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct
  kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl
  pids: Compute task_tgid using signal-&gt;leader_pid
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: idle: Avoid retaining the tick when it has been stopped</title>
<updated>2018-08-20T09:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-09T17:08:34+00:00</published>
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If the tick has been stopped already, but the governor has not asked to
stop it (which it can do sometimes), the idle loop should invoke
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(), to let tick_nohz_stop_tick() take care
of this case properly.

Fixes: 554c8aa8ecad (sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick)
Cc: 4.17+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.17+
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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If the tick has been stopped already, but the governor has not asked to
stop it (which it can do sometimes), the idle loop should invoke
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(), to let tick_nohz_stop_tick() take care
of this case properly.

Fixes: 554c8aa8ecad (sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick)
Cc: 4.17+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.17+
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</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>Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T01:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T01:28:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=13e091b6dd0e78a518a7d8756607d3acb8215768'/>
<id>13e091b6dd0e78a518a7d8756607d3acb8215768</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Early TSC based time stamping to allow better boot time analysis.

  This comes with a general cleanup of the TSC calibration code which
  grew warts and duct taping over the years and removes 250 lines of
  code. Initiated and mostly implemented by Pavel with help from various
  folks"

* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/kvmclock: Mark kvm_get_preset_lpj() as __init
  x86/tsc: Consolidate init code
  sched/clock: Disable interrupts when calling generic_sched_clock_init()
  timekeeping: Prevent false warning when persistent clock is not available
  sched/clock: Close a hole in sched_clock_init()
  x86/tsc: Make use of tsc_calibrate_cpu_early()
  x86/tsc: Split native_calibrate_cpu() into early and late parts
  sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running
  sched/clock: Enable sched clock early
  sched/clock: Move sched clock initialization and merge with generic clock
  x86/tsc: Use TSC as sched clock early
  x86/tsc: Initialize cyc2ns when tsc frequency is determined
  x86/tsc: Calibrate tsc only once
  ARM/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
  s390/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
  timekeeping: Default boot time offset to local_clock()
  timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
  s390/time: Add read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
  x86/xen/time: Output xen sched_clock time from 0
  x86/xen/time: Initialize pv xen time in init_hypervisor_platform()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Early TSC based time stamping to allow better boot time analysis.

  This comes with a general cleanup of the TSC calibration code which
  grew warts and duct taping over the years and removes 250 lines of
  code. Initiated and mostly implemented by Pavel with help from various
  folks"

* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/kvmclock: Mark kvm_get_preset_lpj() as __init
  x86/tsc: Consolidate init code
  sched/clock: Disable interrupts when calling generic_sched_clock_init()
  timekeeping: Prevent false warning when persistent clock is not available
  sched/clock: Close a hole in sched_clock_init()
  x86/tsc: Make use of tsc_calibrate_cpu_early()
  x86/tsc: Split native_calibrate_cpu() into early and late parts
  sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running
  sched/clock: Enable sched clock early
  sched/clock: Move sched clock initialization and merge with generic clock
  x86/tsc: Use TSC as sched clock early
  x86/tsc: Initialize cyc2ns when tsc frequency is determined
  x86/tsc: Calibrate tsc only once
  ARM/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
  s390/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
  timekeeping: Default boot time offset to local_clock()
  timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
  s390/time: Add read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
  x86/xen/time: Output xen sched_clock time from 0
  x86/xen/time: Initialize pv xen time in init_hypervisor_platform()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-13T19:23:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-13T19:23:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=de5d1b39ea0b38a9f4dfb08966042b7b91e2df30'/>
<id>de5d1b39ea0b38a9f4dfb08966042b7b91e2df30</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking/atomics update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The locking, atomics and memory model brains delivered:

   - A larger update to the atomics code which reworks the ordering
     barriers, consolidates the atomic primitives, provides the new
     atomic64_fetch_add_unless() primitive and cleans up the include
     hell.

   - Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation and add instrumentation for
     xchg() and cmpxchg_double().

   - Updates to the memory model and documentation"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits)
  locking/atomics: Rework ordering barriers
  locking/atomics: Instrument cmpxchg_double*()
  locking/atomics: Instrument xchg()
  locking/atomics: Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation
  locking/atomics/x86: Reduce arch_cmpxchg64*() instrumentation
  tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7
  tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix typo, smb-&gt;smp
  sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() &amp; co. memory-barrier guarantees
  locking/spinlock, sched/core: Clarify requirements for smp_mb__after_spinlock()
  sched/core: Use smp_mb() in wake_woken_function()
  tools/memory-model: Add informal LKMM documentation to MAINTAINERS
  locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
  tools/memory-model: Make scripts executable
  tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from model
  tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from recipes
  locking/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update Korean translation to fix broken DMA vs. MMIO ordering example
  MAINTAINERS: Add Daniel Lustig as an LKMM reviewer
  tools/memory-model: Fix ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce name
  tools/memory-model: Add litmus test for full multicopy atomicity
  locking/refcount: Always allow checked forms
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull locking/atomics update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The locking, atomics and memory model brains delivered:

   - A larger update to the atomics code which reworks the ordering
     barriers, consolidates the atomic primitives, provides the new
     atomic64_fetch_add_unless() primitive and cleans up the include
     hell.

   - Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation and add instrumentation for
     xchg() and cmpxchg_double().

   - Updates to the memory model and documentation"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits)
  locking/atomics: Rework ordering barriers
  locking/atomics: Instrument cmpxchg_double*()
  locking/atomics: Instrument xchg()
  locking/atomics: Simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation
  locking/atomics/x86: Reduce arch_cmpxchg64*() instrumentation
  tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7
  tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix typo, smb-&gt;smp
  sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() &amp; co. memory-barrier guarantees
  locking/spinlock, sched/core: Clarify requirements for smp_mb__after_spinlock()
  sched/core: Use smp_mb() in wake_woken_function()
  tools/memory-model: Add informal LKMM documentation to MAINTAINERS
  locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
  tools/memory-model: Make scripts executable
  tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from model
  tools/memory-model: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from recipes
  locking/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update Korean translation to fix broken DMA vs. MMIO ordering example
  MAINTAINERS: Add Daniel Lustig as an LKMM reviewer
  tools/memory-model: Fix ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce name
  tools/memory-model: Add litmus test for full multicopy atomicity
  locking/refcount: Always allow checked forms
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 4.18-rc7 into master to pick up the KVM dependcy</title>
<updated>2018-08-05T14:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-05T14:39:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f2701b77bbd992f3df4631de8493f21db0830452'/>
<id>f2701b77bbd992f3df4631de8493f21db0830452</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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