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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T01:45:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T01:45:15+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Generalized infrastructure for 'writable' ID registers, effectively
     allowing userspace to opt-out of certain vCPU features for its
     guest

   - Optimization for vSGI injection, opportunistically compressing
     MPIDR to vCPU mapping into a table

   - Improvements to KVM's PMU emulation, allowing userspace to select
     the number of PMCs available to a VM

   - Guest support for memory operation instructions (FEAT_MOPS)

   - Cleanups to handling feature flags in KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, squashing
     bugs and getting rid of useless code

   - Changes to the way the SMCCC filter is constructed, avoiding wasted
     memory allocations when not in use

   - Load the stage-2 MMU context at vcpu_load() for VHE systems,
     reducing the overhead of errata mitigations

   - Miscellaneous kernel and selftest fixes

  LoongArch:

   - New architecture for kvm.

     The hardware uses the same model as x86, s390 and RISC-V, where
     guest/host mode is orthogonal to supervisor/user mode. The
     virtualization extensions are very similar to MIPS, therefore the
     code also has some similarities but it's been cleaned up to avoid
     some of the historical bogosities that are found in arch/mips. The
     kernel emulates MMU, timer and CSR accesses, while interrupt
     controllers are only emulated in userspace, at least for now.

  RISC-V:

   - Support for the Smstateen and Zicond extensions

   - Support for virtualizing senvcfg

   - Support for virtualized SBI debug console (DBCN)

  S390:

   - Nested page table management can be monitored through tracepoints
     and statistics

  x86:

   - Fix incorrect handling of VMX posted interrupt descriptor in
     KVM_SET_LAPIC, which could result in a dropped timer IRQ

   - Avoid WARN on systems with Intel IPI virtualization

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS, to allow supporting up to 4096 vCPUs
     without forcing more common use cases to eat the extra memory
     overhead.

   - Add virtualization support for AMD SRSO mitigation (IBPB_BRTYPE and
     SBPB, aka Selective Branch Predictor Barrier).

   - Fix a bug where restoring a vCPU snapshot that was taken within 1
     second of creating the original vCPU would cause KVM to try to
     synchronize the vCPU's TSC and thus clobber the correct TSC being
     set by userspace.

   - Compute guest wall clock using a single TSC read to avoid
     generating an inaccurate time, e.g. if the vCPU is preempted
     between multiple TSC reads.

   - "Virtualize" HWCR.TscFreqSel to make Linux guests happy, which
     complain about a "Firmware Bug" if the bit isn't set for select
     F/M/S combos. Likewise "virtualize" (ignore) MSR_AMD64_TW_CFG to
     appease Windows Server 2022.

   - Don't apply side effects to Hyper-V's synthetic timer on writes
     from userspace to fix an issue where the auto-enable behavior can
     trigger spurious interrupts, i.e. do auto-enabling only for guest
     writes.

   - Remove an unnecessary kick of all vCPUs when synchronizing the
     dirty log without PML enabled.

   - Advertise "support" for non-serializing FS/GS base MSR writes as
     appropriate.

   - Harden the fast page fault path to guard against encountering an
     invalid root when walking SPTEs.

   - Omit "struct kvm_vcpu_xen" entirely when CONFIG_KVM_XEN=n.

   - Use the fast path directly from the timer callback when delivering
     Xen timer events, instead of waiting for the next iteration of the
     run loop. This was not done so far because previously proposed code
     had races, but now care is taken to stop the hrtimer at critical
     points such as restarting the timer or saving the timer information
     for userspace.

   - Follow the lead of upstream Xen and ignore the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future
     flag.

   - Optimize injection of PMU interrupts that are simultaneous with
     NMIs.

   - Usual handful of fixes for typos and other warts.

  x86 - MTRR/PAT fixes and optimizations:

   - Clean up code that deals with honoring guest MTRRs when the VM has
     non-coherent DMA and host MTRRs are ignored, i.e. EPT is enabled.

   - Zap EPT entries when non-coherent DMA assignment stops/start to
     prevent using stale entries with the wrong memtype.

   - Don't ignore guest PAT for CR0.CD=1 &amp;&amp; KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED=y

     This was done as a workaround for virtual machine BIOSes that did
     not bother to clear CR0.CD (because ancient KVM/QEMU did not bother
     to set it, in turn), and there's zero reason to extend the quirk to
     also ignore guest PAT.

  x86 - SEV fixes:

   - Report KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN instead of EINVAL if KVM intercepts
     SHUTDOWN while running an SEV-ES guest.

   - Clean up the recognition of emulation failures on SEV guests, when
     KVM would like to "skip" the instruction but it had already been
     partially emulated. This makes it possible to drop a hack that
     second guessed the (insufficient) information provided by the
     emulator, and just do the right thing.

  Documentation:

   - Various updates and fixes, mostly for x86

   - MTRR and PAT fixes and optimizations"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (164 commits)
  KVM: selftests: Avoid using forced target for generating arm64 headers
  tools headers arm64: Fix references to top srcdir in Makefile
  KVM: arm64: Add tracepoint for MMIO accesses where ISV==0
  KVM: arm64: selftest: Perform ISB before reading PAR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: selftest: Add the missing .guest_prepare()
  KVM: arm64: Always invalidate TLB for stage-2 permission faults
  KVM: x86: Service NMI requests after PMI requests in VM-Enter path
  KVM: arm64: Handle AArch32 SPSR_{irq,abt,und,fiq} as RAZ/WI
  KVM: arm64: Do not let a L1 hypervisor access the *32_EL2 sysregs
  KVM: arm64: Refine _EL2 system register list that require trap reinjection
  arm64: Add missing _EL2 encodings
  arm64: Add missing _EL12 encodings
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU test for validating user accesses
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU register test for unimplemented counters
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU register test for implemented counters
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: Introduce vpmu_counter_access test
  tools: Import arm_pmuv3.h
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Allow userspace to limit PMCR_EL0.N for the guest
  KVM: arm64: Sanitize PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR} before first run
  KVM: arm64: Add {get,set}_user for PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Generalized infrastructure for 'writable' ID registers, effectively
     allowing userspace to opt-out of certain vCPU features for its
     guest

   - Optimization for vSGI injection, opportunistically compressing
     MPIDR to vCPU mapping into a table

   - Improvements to KVM's PMU emulation, allowing userspace to select
     the number of PMCs available to a VM

   - Guest support for memory operation instructions (FEAT_MOPS)

   - Cleanups to handling feature flags in KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, squashing
     bugs and getting rid of useless code

   - Changes to the way the SMCCC filter is constructed, avoiding wasted
     memory allocations when not in use

   - Load the stage-2 MMU context at vcpu_load() for VHE systems,
     reducing the overhead of errata mitigations

   - Miscellaneous kernel and selftest fixes

  LoongArch:

   - New architecture for kvm.

     The hardware uses the same model as x86, s390 and RISC-V, where
     guest/host mode is orthogonal to supervisor/user mode. The
     virtualization extensions are very similar to MIPS, therefore the
     code also has some similarities but it's been cleaned up to avoid
     some of the historical bogosities that are found in arch/mips. The
     kernel emulates MMU, timer and CSR accesses, while interrupt
     controllers are only emulated in userspace, at least for now.

  RISC-V:

   - Support for the Smstateen and Zicond extensions

   - Support for virtualizing senvcfg

   - Support for virtualized SBI debug console (DBCN)

  S390:

   - Nested page table management can be monitored through tracepoints
     and statistics

  x86:

   - Fix incorrect handling of VMX posted interrupt descriptor in
     KVM_SET_LAPIC, which could result in a dropped timer IRQ

   - Avoid WARN on systems with Intel IPI virtualization

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS, to allow supporting up to 4096 vCPUs
     without forcing more common use cases to eat the extra memory
     overhead.

   - Add virtualization support for AMD SRSO mitigation (IBPB_BRTYPE and
     SBPB, aka Selective Branch Predictor Barrier).

   - Fix a bug where restoring a vCPU snapshot that was taken within 1
     second of creating the original vCPU would cause KVM to try to
     synchronize the vCPU's TSC and thus clobber the correct TSC being
     set by userspace.

   - Compute guest wall clock using a single TSC read to avoid
     generating an inaccurate time, e.g. if the vCPU is preempted
     between multiple TSC reads.

   - "Virtualize" HWCR.TscFreqSel to make Linux guests happy, which
     complain about a "Firmware Bug" if the bit isn't set for select
     F/M/S combos. Likewise "virtualize" (ignore) MSR_AMD64_TW_CFG to
     appease Windows Server 2022.

   - Don't apply side effects to Hyper-V's synthetic timer on writes
     from userspace to fix an issue where the auto-enable behavior can
     trigger spurious interrupts, i.e. do auto-enabling only for guest
     writes.

   - Remove an unnecessary kick of all vCPUs when synchronizing the
     dirty log without PML enabled.

   - Advertise "support" for non-serializing FS/GS base MSR writes as
     appropriate.

   - Harden the fast page fault path to guard against encountering an
     invalid root when walking SPTEs.

   - Omit "struct kvm_vcpu_xen" entirely when CONFIG_KVM_XEN=n.

   - Use the fast path directly from the timer callback when delivering
     Xen timer events, instead of waiting for the next iteration of the
     run loop. This was not done so far because previously proposed code
     had races, but now care is taken to stop the hrtimer at critical
     points such as restarting the timer or saving the timer information
     for userspace.

   - Follow the lead of upstream Xen and ignore the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future
     flag.

   - Optimize injection of PMU interrupts that are simultaneous with
     NMIs.

   - Usual handful of fixes for typos and other warts.

  x86 - MTRR/PAT fixes and optimizations:

   - Clean up code that deals with honoring guest MTRRs when the VM has
     non-coherent DMA and host MTRRs are ignored, i.e. EPT is enabled.

   - Zap EPT entries when non-coherent DMA assignment stops/start to
     prevent using stale entries with the wrong memtype.

   - Don't ignore guest PAT for CR0.CD=1 &amp;&amp; KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED=y

     This was done as a workaround for virtual machine BIOSes that did
     not bother to clear CR0.CD (because ancient KVM/QEMU did not bother
     to set it, in turn), and there's zero reason to extend the quirk to
     also ignore guest PAT.

  x86 - SEV fixes:

   - Report KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN instead of EINVAL if KVM intercepts
     SHUTDOWN while running an SEV-ES guest.

   - Clean up the recognition of emulation failures on SEV guests, when
     KVM would like to "skip" the instruction but it had already been
     partially emulated. This makes it possible to drop a hack that
     second guessed the (insufficient) information provided by the
     emulator, and just do the right thing.

  Documentation:

   - Various updates and fixes, mostly for x86

   - MTRR and PAT fixes and optimizations"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (164 commits)
  KVM: selftests: Avoid using forced target for generating arm64 headers
  tools headers arm64: Fix references to top srcdir in Makefile
  KVM: arm64: Add tracepoint for MMIO accesses where ISV==0
  KVM: arm64: selftest: Perform ISB before reading PAR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: selftest: Add the missing .guest_prepare()
  KVM: arm64: Always invalidate TLB for stage-2 permission faults
  KVM: x86: Service NMI requests after PMI requests in VM-Enter path
  KVM: arm64: Handle AArch32 SPSR_{irq,abt,und,fiq} as RAZ/WI
  KVM: arm64: Do not let a L1 hypervisor access the *32_EL2 sysregs
  KVM: arm64: Refine _EL2 system register list that require trap reinjection
  arm64: Add missing _EL2 encodings
  arm64: Add missing _EL12 encodings
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU test for validating user accesses
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU register test for unimplemented counters
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU register test for implemented counters
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: Introduce vpmu_counter_access test
  tools: Import arm_pmuv3.h
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Allow userspace to limit PMCR_EL0.N for the guest
  KVM: arm64: Sanitize PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR} before first run
  KVM: arm64: Add {get,set}_user for PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</published>
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Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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<pre>
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T20:37:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T20:37:07+00:00</published>
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KVM/arm64 updates for 6.7

 - Generalized infrastructure for 'writable' ID registers, effectively
   allowing userspace to opt-out of certain vCPU features for its guest

 - Optimization for vSGI injection, opportunistically compressing MPIDR
   to vCPU mapping into a table

 - Improvements to KVM's PMU emulation, allowing userspace to select
   the number of PMCs available to a VM

 - Guest support for memory operation instructions (FEAT_MOPS)

 - Cleanups to handling feature flags in KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, squashing
   bugs and getting rid of useless code

 - Changes to the way the SMCCC filter is constructed, avoiding wasted
   memory allocations when not in use

 - Load the stage-2 MMU context at vcpu_load() for VHE systems, reducing
   the overhead of errata mitigations

 - Miscellaneous kernel and selftest fixes
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KVM/arm64 updates for 6.7

 - Generalized infrastructure for 'writable' ID registers, effectively
   allowing userspace to opt-out of certain vCPU features for its guest

 - Optimization for vSGI injection, opportunistically compressing MPIDR
   to vCPU mapping into a table

 - Improvements to KVM's PMU emulation, allowing userspace to select
   the number of PMCs available to a VM

 - Guest support for memory operation instructions (FEAT_MOPS)

 - Cleanups to handling feature flags in KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, squashing
   bugs and getting rid of useless code

 - Changes to the way the SMCCC filter is constructed, avoiding wasted
   memory allocations when not in use

 - Load the stage-2 MMU context at vcpu_load() for VHE systems, reducing
   the overhead of errata mitigations

 - Miscellaneous kernel and selftest fixes
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools headers arm64: Fix references to top srcdir in Makefile</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T20:20:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T00:54:38+00:00</published>
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Aishwarya reports that KVM selftests for arm64 fail with the following
error:

 | make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/kvm'
 | Makefile:270: warning: overriding recipe for target
 | '/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/kvm/get-reg-list'
 | Makefile:265: warning: ignoring old recipe for target
 | '/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/kvm/get-reg-list'
 | make -C ../../../../tools/arch/arm64/tools/
 | make[5]: Entering directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/arch/arm64/tools'
 | Makefile:10: ../tools/scripts/Makefile.include: No such file or directory
 | make[5]: *** No rule to make target '../tools/scripts/Makefile.include'.
 |  Stop.

It would appear that this only affects builds from the top-level
Makefile (e.g. make kselftest-all), as $(srctree) is set to ".". Work
around the issue by shadowing the kselftest naming scheme for the source
tree variable.

Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0359c946b131 ("tools headers arm64: Update sysreg.h with kernel sources")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027005439.3142015-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Aishwarya reports that KVM selftests for arm64 fail with the following
error:

 | make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/kvm'
 | Makefile:270: warning: overriding recipe for target
 | '/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/kvm/get-reg-list'
 | Makefile:265: warning: ignoring old recipe for target
 | '/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/kvm/get-reg-list'
 | make -C ../../../../tools/arch/arm64/tools/
 | make[5]: Entering directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/arch/arm64/tools'
 | Makefile:10: ../tools/scripts/Makefile.include: No such file or directory
 | make[5]: *** No rule to make target '../tools/scripts/Makefile.include'.
 |  Stop.

It would appear that this only affects builds from the top-level
Makefile (e.g. make kselftest-all), as $(srctree) is set to ".". Work
around the issue by shadowing the kselftest naming scheme for the source
tree variable.

Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0359c946b131 ("tools headers arm64: Update sysreg.h with kernel sources")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027005439.3142015-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'seccomp-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T17:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T17:10:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=189b756271e69bb6b9dfe4703b7f74855ab201b4'/>
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Pull seccomp fix from Kees Cook:

 - Fix seccomp_unotify perf benchmark for 32-bit (Jiri Slaby)

* tag 'seccomp-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  perf/benchmark: fix seccomp_unotify benchmark for 32-bit
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Pull seccomp fix from Kees Cook:

 - Fix seccomp_unotify perf benchmark for 32-bit (Jiri Slaby)

* tag 'seccomp-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  perf/benchmark: fix seccomp_unotify benchmark for 32-bit
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<entry>
<title>perf/benchmark: fix seccomp_unotify benchmark for 32-bit</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T00:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby (SUSE)</name>
<email>jirislaby@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-17T08:30:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=31c65705a8cfa5f80d3824c686ab74b0409ee76d'/>
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Commit 7d5cb68af638 (perf/benchmark: add a new benchmark for
seccom_unotify) added a reference to __NR_seccomp into perf. This is
fine as it added also a definition of __NR_seccomp for 64-bit. But it
failed to do so for 32-bit as instead of ifndef, ifdef was used.

Fix this typo (so fix the build of perf on 32-bit).

Fixes: 7d5cb68af638 (perf/benchmark: add a new benchmark for seccom_unotify)
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017083019.31733-1-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Commit 7d5cb68af638 (perf/benchmark: add a new benchmark for
seccom_unotify) added a reference to __NR_seccomp into perf. This is
fine as it added also a definition of __NR_seccomp for 64-bit. But it
failed to do so for 32-bit as instead of ifndef, ifdef was used.

Fix this typo (so fix the build of perf on 32-bit).

Fixes: 7d5cb68af638 (perf/benchmark: add a new benchmark for seccom_unotify)
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017083019.31733-1-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools headers arm64: Update sysreg.h with kernel sources</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T23:36:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jing Zhang</name>
<email>jingzhangos@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T19:57:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0359c946b13153bd57fac65f4f3600ba5673e3de'/>
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The users of sysreg.h (perf, KVM selftests) are now generating the
necessary sysreg-defs.h; sync sysreg.h with the kernel sources and
fix the KVM selftests that use macros which suffered a rename.

Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011195740.3349631-5-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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The users of sysreg.h (perf, KVM selftests) are now generating the
necessary sysreg-defs.h; sync sysreg.h with the kernel sources and
fix the KVM selftests that use macros which suffered a rename.

Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011195740.3349631-5-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools: arm64: Add a Makefile for generating sysreg-defs.h</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T23:36:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T19:57:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=02e85f74668e1aa0062708b58d8aef020054e56c'/>
<id>02e85f74668e1aa0062708b58d8aef020054e56c</id>
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Use a common Makefile for generating sysreg-defs.h, which will soon be
needed by perf and KVM selftests. The naming scheme of the generated
macros is not expected to change, so just refer to the canonical
script/data in the kernel source rather than copying to tools.

Co-developed-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011195740.3349631-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Use a common Makefile for generating sysreg-defs.h, which will soon be
needed by perf and KVM selftests. The naming scheme of the generated
macros is not expected to change, so just refer to the canonical
script/data in the kernel source rather than copying to tools.

Co-developed-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang &lt;jingzhangos@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011195740.3349631-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T11:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-13T11:50:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=15ca35494ec58f50aa58f51437a22573431e8448'/>
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To pick up the changes from these csets:

  1b5277c0ea0b2473 ("x86/srso: Add SRSO_NO support")
  8974eb588283b7d4 ("x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation")

That cause no changes to tooling:

  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/tracepoints/x86_msr.sh &gt; before
  $ cp arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/tracepoints/x86_msr.sh &gt; after
  $ diff -u before after
  $

Just silences this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZQGismCqcDddjEIQ@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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To pick up the changes from these csets:

  1b5277c0ea0b2473 ("x86/srso: Add SRSO_NO support")
  8974eb588283b7d4 ("x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation")

That cause no changes to tooling:

  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/tracepoints/x86_msr.sh &gt; before
  $ cp arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/tracepoints/x86_msr.sh &gt; after
  $ diff -u before after
  $

Just silences this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZQGismCqcDddjEIQ@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057'/>
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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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