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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile, branch v5.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>s390/kprobes: move insn_page to text segment</title>
<updated>2020-10-09T21:45:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-18T08:26:19+00:00</published>
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Move the in-kernel kprobes insn page to text segment. Rationale:
having that page in rw data segment is suboptimal, since as soon as a
kprobe is set, this will split the 1:1 kernel mapping for a single
page which get new permissions.

Note: there is always at least one kprobe present for the kretprobe
trampoline; so the mapping will always be split into smaller 4k
mappings because of this.

Moving the kprobes insn page into text segment makes sure that the
page is mapped RO/X in any case, and avoids that the 1:1 mapping is
split.

The kprobe insn_page is defined as a dummy function which is filled
with "br %r14" instructions.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Move the in-kernel kprobes insn page to text segment. Rationale:
having that page in rw data segment is suboptimal, since as soon as a
kprobe is set, this will split the 1:1 kernel mapping for a single
page which get new permissions.

Note: there is always at least one kprobe present for the kretprobe
trampoline; so the mapping will always be split into smaller 4k
mappings because of this.

Moving the kprobes insn page into text segment makes sure that the
page is mapped RO/X in any case, and avoids that the 1:1 mapping is
split.

The kprobe insn_page is defined as a dummy function which is filled
with "br %r14" instructions.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/numa: move code to arch/s390/kernel</title>
<updated>2020-08-11T16:16:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Gordeev</name>
<email>agordeev@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T18:35:50+00:00</published>
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Move all code from arch/s390/numa/ to arch/s390/kernel/
since numa.c is the only source file and all others were
deleted with the fake NUMA support removal.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Move all code from arch/s390/numa/ to arch/s390/kernel/
since numa.c is the only source file and all others were
deleted with the fake NUMA support removal.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: ptrace: hard-code "s390x" instead of UTS_MACHINE</title>
<updated>2020-05-06T12:59:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-13T01:31:13+00:00</published>
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s390 uses the UTS_MACHINE defined arch/s390/Makefile as follows:

  UTS_MACHINE     := s390x

We do not need to pass the fixed string from the command line.
Hard-code user_regset_view::name, like many other architectures do.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200413013113.8529-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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s390 uses the UTS_MACHINE defined arch/s390/Makefile as follows:

  UTS_MACHINE     := s390x

We do not need to pass the fixed string from the command line.
Hard-code user_regset_view::name, like many other architectures do.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200413013113.8529-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2020-04-04T16:45:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-04T16:45:50+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Update maintainers. Niklas Schnelle takes over zpci and Vineeth
   Vijayan common io code.

 - Extend cpuinfo to include topology information.

 - Add new extended counters for IBM z15 and sampling buffer allocation
   rework in perf code.

 - Add control over zeroing out memory during system restart.

 - CCA protected key block version 2 support and other
   fixes/improvements in crypto code.

 - Convert to new fallthrough; annotations.

 - Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-arrays.

 - QDIO debugfs and other small improvements.

 - Drop 2-level paging support optimization for compat tasks. Varios mm
   cleanups.

 - Remove broken and unused hibernate / power management support.

 - Remove fake numa support which does not bring any benefits.

 - Exclude offline CPUs from CPU topology masks to be more consistent
   with other architectures.

 - Prevent last branching instruction address leaking to userspace.

 - Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.

* tag 's390-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (57 commits)
  s390/mm: cleanup init_new_context() callback
  s390/mm: cleanup virtual memory constants usage
  s390/mm: remove page table downgrade support
  s390/qdio: set qdio_irq-&gt;cdev at allocation time
  s390/qdio: remove unused function declarations
  s390/ccwgroup: remove pm support
  s390/ap: remove power management code from ap bus and drivers
  s390/zcrypt: use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc for 256k alloc
  s390/mm: cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area() and friends
  s390/ism: remove pm support
  s390/cio: use fallthrough;
  s390/vfio: use fallthrough;
  s390/zcrypt: use fallthrough;
  s390: use fallthrough;
  s390/cpum_sf: Fix wrong page count in error message
  s390/diag: fix display of diagnose call statistics
  s390/ap: Remove ap device suspend and resume callbacks
  s390/pci: Improve handling of unset UID
  s390/pci: Fix zpci_alloc_domain() over allocation
  s390/qdio: pass ISC as parameter to chsc_sadc()
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Update maintainers. Niklas Schnelle takes over zpci and Vineeth
   Vijayan common io code.

 - Extend cpuinfo to include topology information.

 - Add new extended counters for IBM z15 and sampling buffer allocation
   rework in perf code.

 - Add control over zeroing out memory during system restart.

 - CCA protected key block version 2 support and other
   fixes/improvements in crypto code.

 - Convert to new fallthrough; annotations.

 - Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-arrays.

 - QDIO debugfs and other small improvements.

 - Drop 2-level paging support optimization for compat tasks. Varios mm
   cleanups.

 - Remove broken and unused hibernate / power management support.

 - Remove fake numa support which does not bring any benefits.

 - Exclude offline CPUs from CPU topology masks to be more consistent
   with other architectures.

 - Prevent last branching instruction address leaking to userspace.

 - Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.

* tag 's390-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (57 commits)
  s390/mm: cleanup init_new_context() callback
  s390/mm: cleanup virtual memory constants usage
  s390/mm: remove page table downgrade support
  s390/qdio: set qdio_irq-&gt;cdev at allocation time
  s390/qdio: remove unused function declarations
  s390/ccwgroup: remove pm support
  s390/ap: remove power management code from ap bus and drivers
  s390/zcrypt: use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc for 256k alloc
  s390/mm: cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area() and friends
  s390/ism: remove pm support
  s390/cio: use fallthrough;
  s390/vfio: use fallthrough;
  s390/zcrypt: use fallthrough;
  s390: use fallthrough;
  s390/cpum_sf: Fix wrong page count in error message
  s390/diag: fix display of diagnose call statistics
  s390/ap: Remove ap device suspend and resume callbacks
  s390/pci: Improve handling of unset UID
  s390/pci: Fix zpci_alloc_domain() over allocation
  s390/qdio: pass ISC as parameter to chsc_sadc()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2020-04-02T22:13:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-02T22:13:15+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - GICv4.1 support

   - 32bit host removal

  PPC:
   - secure (encrypted) using under the Protected Execution Framework
     ultravisor

  s390:
   - allow disabling GISA (hardware interrupt injection) and protected
     VMs/ultravisor support.

  x86:
   - New dirty bitmap flag that sets all bits in the bitmap when dirty
     page logging is enabled; this is faster because it doesn't require
     bulk modification of the page tables.

   - Initial work on making nested SVM event injection more similar to
     VMX, and less buggy.

   - Various cleanups to MMU code (though the big ones and related
     optimizations were delayed to 5.8). Instead of using cr3 in
     function names which occasionally means eptp, KVM too has
     standardized on "pgd".

   - A large refactoring of CPUID features, which now use an array that
     parallels the core x86_features.

   - Some removal of pointer chasing from kvm_x86_ops, which will also
     be switched to static calls as soon as they are available.

   - New Tigerlake CPUID features.

   - More bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups.

  Generic:
   - selftests: cleanups, new MMU notifier stress test, steal-time test

   - CSV output for kvm_stat"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (277 commits)
  x86/kvm: fix a missing-prototypes "vmread_error"
  KVM: x86: Fix BUILD_BUG() in __cpuid_entry_get_reg() w/ CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  KVM: VMX: Add a trampoline to fix VMREAD error handling
  KVM: SVM: Annotate svm_x86_ops as __initdata
  KVM: VMX: Annotate vmx_x86_ops as __initdata
  KVM: x86: Drop __exit from kvm_x86_ops' hardware_unsetup()
  KVM: x86: Copy kvm_x86_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection
  KVM: x86: Set kvm_x86_ops only after -&gt;hardware_setup() completes
  KVM: VMX: Configure runtime hooks using vmx_x86_ops
  KVM: VMX: Move hardware_setup() definition below vmx_x86_ops
  KVM: x86: Move init-only kvm_x86_ops to separate struct
  KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs
  s390/gmap: return proper error code on ksm unsharing
  KVM: selftests: Fix cosmetic copy-paste error in vm_mem_region_move()
  KVM: Fix out of range accesses to memslots
  KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay
  KVM: X86: Delay read msr data iff writes ICR MSR
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a capability for enabling secure guests
  KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs
  KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - GICv4.1 support

   - 32bit host removal

  PPC:
   - secure (encrypted) using under the Protected Execution Framework
     ultravisor

  s390:
   - allow disabling GISA (hardware interrupt injection) and protected
     VMs/ultravisor support.

  x86:
   - New dirty bitmap flag that sets all bits in the bitmap when dirty
     page logging is enabled; this is faster because it doesn't require
     bulk modification of the page tables.

   - Initial work on making nested SVM event injection more similar to
     VMX, and less buggy.

   - Various cleanups to MMU code (though the big ones and related
     optimizations were delayed to 5.8). Instead of using cr3 in
     function names which occasionally means eptp, KVM too has
     standardized on "pgd".

   - A large refactoring of CPUID features, which now use an array that
     parallels the core x86_features.

   - Some removal of pointer chasing from kvm_x86_ops, which will also
     be switched to static calls as soon as they are available.

   - New Tigerlake CPUID features.

   - More bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups.

  Generic:
   - selftests: cleanups, new MMU notifier stress test, steal-time test

   - CSV output for kvm_stat"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (277 commits)
  x86/kvm: fix a missing-prototypes "vmread_error"
  KVM: x86: Fix BUILD_BUG() in __cpuid_entry_get_reg() w/ CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  KVM: VMX: Add a trampoline to fix VMREAD error handling
  KVM: SVM: Annotate svm_x86_ops as __initdata
  KVM: VMX: Annotate vmx_x86_ops as __initdata
  KVM: x86: Drop __exit from kvm_x86_ops' hardware_unsetup()
  KVM: x86: Copy kvm_x86_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection
  KVM: x86: Set kvm_x86_ops only after -&gt;hardware_setup() completes
  KVM: VMX: Configure runtime hooks using vmx_x86_ops
  KVM: VMX: Move hardware_setup() definition below vmx_x86_ops
  KVM: x86: Move init-only kvm_x86_ops to separate struct
  KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs
  s390/gmap: return proper error code on ksm unsharing
  KVM: selftests: Fix cosmetic copy-paste error in vm_mem_region_move()
  KVM: Fix out of range accesses to memslots
  KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay
  KVM: X86: Delay read msr data iff writes ICR MSR
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a capability for enabling secure guests
  KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs
  KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove broken hibernate / power management support</title>
<updated>2020-03-23T12:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-18T19:55:24+00:00</published>
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Hibernation is known to be broken for many years on s390. Given that
there aren't any real use cases, remove the code instead of spending
time to fix and maintain it.

Without hibernate support it doesn't make too much sense to keep power
management support; therefore remove it completely.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Hibernation is known to be broken for many years on s390. Given that
there aren't any real use cases, remove the code instead of spending
time to fix and maintain it.

Without hibernate support it doesn't make too much sense to keep power
management support; therefore remove it completely.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific policies</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T11:43:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nayna Jain</name>
<email>nayna@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-09T00:57:51+00:00</published>
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Every time a new architecture defines the IMA architecture specific
functions - arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_ima_get_policy(), the IMA
include file needs to be updated. To avoid this "noise", this patch
defines a new IMA Kconfig IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT option, allowing
the different architectures to select it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain &lt;nayna@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.ibm.com&gt; (s390)
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Every time a new architecture defines the IMA architecture specific
functions - arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_ima_get_policy(), the IMA
include file needs to be updated. To avoid this "noise", this patch
defines a new IMA Kconfig IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT option, allowing
the different architectures to select it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain &lt;nayna@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.ibm.com&gt; (s390)
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/protvirt: introduce host side setup</title>
<updated>2020-02-27T18:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Gorbik</name>
<email>gor@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-23T11:56:36+00:00</published>
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Add "prot_virt" command line option which controls if the kernel
protected VMs support is enabled at early boot time. This has to be
done early, because it needs large amounts of memory and will disable
some features like STP time sync for the lpar.

Extend ultravisor info definitions and expose it via uv_info struct
filled in during startup.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
[borntraeger@de.ibm.com: patch merging, splitting, fixing]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<pre>
Add "prot_virt" command line option which controls if the kernel
protected VMs support is enabled at early boot time. This has to be
done early, because it needs large amounts of memory and will disable
some features like STP time sync for the lpar.

Extend ultravisor info definitions and expose it via uv_info struct
filled in during startup.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
[borntraeger@de.ibm.com: patch merging, splitting, fixing]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove compat vdso code</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T11:48:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-18T12:59:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Remove compat vdso code, since there is hardly any compat user space
left. Still existing compat user space will have to use system calls
instead.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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Remove compat vdso code, since there is hardly any compat user space
left. Still existing compat user space will have to use system calls
instead.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390: clean .bss before running uncompressed kernel</title>
<updated>2019-08-21T10:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Gorbik</name>
<email>gor@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-11T18:55:18+00:00</published>
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Clean uncompressed kernel .bss section in the startup code before
the uncompressed kernel is executed. At this point of time initrd and
certificates have been already rescued. Uncompressed kernel .bss size
is known from vmlinux_info. It is also taken into consideration during
uncompressed kernel positioning by kaslr (so it is safe to clean it).

With that uncompressed kernel is starting with .bss section zeroed and
no .bss section usage restrictions apply. Which makes chkbss checks for
uncompressed kernel objects obsolete and they can be removed.

early_nobss.c is also not needed anymore. Parts of it which are still
relevant are moved to early.c. Kasan initialization code is now called
directly from head64 (early.c is instrumented and should not be
executed before kasan shadow memory is set up).

Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Clean uncompressed kernel .bss section in the startup code before
the uncompressed kernel is executed. At this point of time initrd and
certificates have been already rescued. Uncompressed kernel .bss size
is known from vmlinux_info. It is also taken into consideration during
uncompressed kernel positioning by kaslr (so it is safe to clean it).

With that uncompressed kernel is starting with .bss section zeroed and
no .bss section usage restrictions apply. Which makes chkbss checks for
uncompressed kernel objects obsolete and they can be removed.

early_nobss.c is also not needed anymore. Parts of it which are still
relevant are moved to early.c. Kasan initialization code is now called
directly from head64 (early.c is instrumented and should not be
executed before kasan shadow memory is set up).

Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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