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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/Makefile, branch v6.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-build-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T04:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T04:41:14+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU=y build option to locally optimize the
  kernel build with '-march=native'"

* tag 'x86-build-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kbuild/64: Restrict clang versions that can use '-march=native'
  x86/kbuild/64: Test for the availability of the -mtune=native compiler flag
  x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'
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Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU=y build option to locally optimize the
  kernel build with '-march=native'"

* tag 'x86-build-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kbuild/64: Restrict clang versions that can use '-march=native'
  x86/kbuild/64: Test for the availability of the -mtune=native compiler flag
  x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Move the 5-level paging trampoline into /startup</title>
<updated>2025-04-06T18:15:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T13:34:19+00:00</published>
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The 5-level paging trampoline is used by both the EFI stub and the
traditional decompressor. Move it out of the decompressor sources into
the newly minted arch/x86/boot/startup/ sub-directory which will hold
startup code that may be shared between the decompressor, the EFI stub
and the kernel proper, and needs to tolerate being called during early
boot, before the kernel virtual mapping has been created.

This will allow the 5-level paging trampoline to be used by EFI boot
images such as zboot that omit the traditional decompressor entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401133416.1436741-10-ardb+git@google.com
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The 5-level paging trampoline is used by both the EFI stub and the
traditional decompressor. Move it out of the decompressor sources into
the newly minted arch/x86/boot/startup/ sub-directory which will hold
startup code that may be shared between the decompressor, the EFI stub
and the kernel proper, and needs to tolerate being called during early
boot, before the kernel virtual mapping has been created.

This will allow the 5-level paging trampoline to be used by EFI boot
images such as zboot that omit the traditional decompressor entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401133416.1436741-10-ardb+git@google.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T22:46:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T22:46:50+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms

 - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

 - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um

 - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility

 - Support the loong64 Debian architecture

 - Add Kbuild bash completion

 - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
   static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux

 - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases

 - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error

 - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB

 - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package

* tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
  kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
  nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
  rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
  kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
  kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
  modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
  x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
  kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
  Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
  x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
  kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
  kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
  kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
  kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
  Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms

 - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

 - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um

 - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility

 - Support the loong64 Debian architecture

 - Add Kbuild bash completion

 - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
   static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux

 - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases

 - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error

 - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB

 - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package

* tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
  kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
  nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
  rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
  kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
  kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
  modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
  x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
  kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
  Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
  x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
  kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
  kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
  kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
  kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
  Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
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<entry>
<title>x86: don't re-generate cpufeaturemasks.h so eagerly</title>
<updated>2025-03-31T21:19:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T21:19:55+00:00</published>
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It turns out the code to generate the x86 cpufeaturemasks.h header was
way too aggressive, and would re-generate it whenever the timestamp on
the kernel config file changed.

Now, the regular 'make *config' tools are fairly careful to not rewrite
the kernel config file unless the contents change, but other usecases
aren't that careful.

Michael Kelley reports that 'make-kpkg' ends up doing "make syncconfig"
multiple times in prepping to build, and will modify the config file in
the process (and then modify it back, but by then the timestamps have
changed).

Jakub Kicinski reports that the netdev CI does something similar in how
it generates the config file in multiple steps.

In both cases, the config file timestamp updates then cause the
cpufeaturemasks.h file to be regenerated, and that in turn then causes
lots of unnecessary rebuilds due to all the normal dependencies.

Fix it by using our 'filechk' infrastructure in the Makefile to generate
the header file.  That will only write a new version of the file if the
contents of the file have actually changed.

Fixes: 841326332bcb ("x86/cpufeatures: Generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header based on build config")
Reported-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/SN6PR02MB415756D1829740F6E8AC11D1D4D82@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328162311.08134fa6@kernel.org/
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It turns out the code to generate the x86 cpufeaturemasks.h header was
way too aggressive, and would re-generate it whenever the timestamp on
the kernel config file changed.

Now, the regular 'make *config' tools are fairly careful to not rewrite
the kernel config file unless the contents change, but other usecases
aren't that careful.

Michael Kelley reports that 'make-kpkg' ends up doing "make syncconfig"
multiple times in prepping to build, and will modify the config file in
the process (and then modify it back, but by then the timestamps have
changed).

Jakub Kicinski reports that the netdev CI does something similar in how
it generates the config file in multiple steps.

In both cases, the config file timestamp updates then cause the
cpufeaturemasks.h file to be regenerated, and that in turn then causes
lots of unnecessary rebuilds due to all the normal dependencies.

Fix it by using our 'filechk' infrastructure in the Makefile to generate
the header file.  That will only write a new version of the file if the
contents of the file have actually changed.

Fixes: 841326332bcb ("x86/cpufeatures: Generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header based on build config")
Reported-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/SN6PR02MB415756D1829740F6E8AC11D1D4D82@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328162311.08134fa6@kernel.org/
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T07:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tor Vic</name>
<email>torvic9@mailbox.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-21T14:28:58+00:00</published>
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Add a 'native' option that allows users to build an optimized kernel for
their local machine (i.e. the machine which is used to build the kernel)
by passing '-march=native' to CFLAGS.

The idea comes from Linus' reply to Arnd's initial proposal:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wji1sV93yKbc==Z7OSSHBiDE=LAdG_d5Y-zPBrnSs0k2A@mail.gmail.com/

Here are some numbers comparing 'generic' to 'native' on a Skylake dual-core
laptop (generic --&gt; native):

  - vmlinux and compressed modules size:
      125'907'744 bytes --&gt; 125'595'280 bytes  (-0.248 %)
      18'810 kilobytes --&gt; 18'770 kilobytes    (-0.213 %)

  - phoronix, average of 3 runs:
      ffmpeg:
      130.99 --&gt; 131.15                        (+0.122 %)
      nginx:
      10'650 --&gt; 10'725                        (+0.704 %)
      hackbench (lower is better):
      102.27 --&gt; 99.50                         (-2.709 %)

  - xz compression of firefox tarball (lower is better):
      319.57 seconds --&gt; 317.34 seconds        (-0.698 %)

  - stress-ng, bogoops, average of 3 15-second runs:
      fork:
      111'744 --&gt; 115'509                      (+3.397 %)
      bsearch:
      7'211 --&gt; 7'436                          (+3.120 %)
      memfd:
      3'591 --&gt; 3'604                          (+0.362 %)
      mmapfork:
      630 --&gt; 629                              (-0.159 %)
      schedmix:
      42'715 --&gt; 43'251                        (+1.255 %)
      epoll:
      2'443'767 --&gt; 2'454'413                  (+0.436 %)
      vm:
      1'442'256 --&gt; 1'486'615                  (+3.076 %)

  - schbench (two message threads), 30-second runs:
      304 rps --&gt; 305 rps                      (+0.329 %)

There is little difference both in terms of size and of performance, however
the native build comes out on top ever so slightly.

[ mingo: Renamed the option to CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU, expanded the help text
         and added Linus's Suggested-by tag. ]

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tor Vic &lt;torvic9@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321142859.13889-1-torvic9@mailbox.org
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Add a 'native' option that allows users to build an optimized kernel for
their local machine (i.e. the machine which is used to build the kernel)
by passing '-march=native' to CFLAGS.

The idea comes from Linus' reply to Arnd's initial proposal:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wji1sV93yKbc==Z7OSSHBiDE=LAdG_d5Y-zPBrnSs0k2A@mail.gmail.com/

Here are some numbers comparing 'generic' to 'native' on a Skylake dual-core
laptop (generic --&gt; native):

  - vmlinux and compressed modules size:
      125'907'744 bytes --&gt; 125'595'280 bytes  (-0.248 %)
      18'810 kilobytes --&gt; 18'770 kilobytes    (-0.213 %)

  - phoronix, average of 3 runs:
      ffmpeg:
      130.99 --&gt; 131.15                        (+0.122 %)
      nginx:
      10'650 --&gt; 10'725                        (+0.704 %)
      hackbench (lower is better):
      102.27 --&gt; 99.50                         (-2.709 %)

  - xz compression of firefox tarball (lower is better):
      319.57 seconds --&gt; 317.34 seconds        (-0.698 %)

  - stress-ng, bogoops, average of 3 15-second runs:
      fork:
      111'744 --&gt; 115'509                      (+3.397 %)
      bsearch:
      7'211 --&gt; 7'436                          (+3.120 %)
      memfd:
      3'591 --&gt; 3'604                          (+0.362 %)
      mmapfork:
      630 --&gt; 629                              (-0.159 %)
      schedmix:
      42'715 --&gt; 43'251                        (+1.255 %)
      epoll:
      2'443'767 --&gt; 2'454'413                  (+0.436 %)
      vm:
      1'442'256 --&gt; 1'486'615                  (+3.076 %)

  - schbench (two message threads), 30-second runs:
      304 rps --&gt; 305 rps                      (+0.329 %)

There is little difference both in terms of size and of performance, however
the native build comes out on top ever so slightly.

[ mingo: Renamed the option to CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU, expanded the help text
         and added Linus's Suggested-by tag. ]

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tor Vic &lt;torvic9@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321142859.13889-1-torvic9@mailbox.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T05:06:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T05:06:11+00:00</published>
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "x86 CPU features support:
   - Generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header based on build config
     (H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
   - x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
   - Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
   - Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
     Jackman)
   - Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
   - Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
   - Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)

  Percpu code:
   - Standardize &amp; reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
   - Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
   - Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)

  MM:
   - Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
     instruction (Rik van Riel)
   - Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
   - PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
     Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
   - Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
     (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
   - Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
     (Matthew Wilcox)

  KASLR:
   - x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
     BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
     Singh)

  CPU bugs:
   - Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
   - speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
   - speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
     Gupta)
   - RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
     Gupta)

  System calls:
   - Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
   - Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)

  Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
   - selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
   - selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
   - selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling

  AMD SMN access updates:
   - Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
   - Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
   - Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)

  Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
   - Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
   - ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
   - intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
   - Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()

  Build system:
   - Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
   - Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)

  Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
   - Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
   - Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
   - Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
   - Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
   - Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
   - Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
   - Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
   - Remove old STA2x11 support
   - Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit

  Headers:
   - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
     headers (Thomas Huth)

  Assembly code &amp; machine code patching:
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
     Poimboeuf)
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
   - KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
   - x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
     &lt;asm/asm.h&gt; (Uros Bizjak)
   - Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
   - Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
     instructions (Uros Bizjak)

  Earlyprintk:
   - Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)

  NMI handler:
   - Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc &amp; use it in
     nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)

  Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
   - by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
     Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
     Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
     Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
     Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
     Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
     Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
     Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
  zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
  x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
  x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
  x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
  x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
  x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in &lt;asm/special_insns.h&gt;
  x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
  x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
  x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
  x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
  x86/head/64: Avoid Clang &lt; 17 stack protector in startup code
  x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from &lt;asm/asm.h&gt;
  x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
  x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
  x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
  x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
  ...
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "x86 CPU features support:
   - Generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header based on build config
     (H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
   - x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
   - Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
   - Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
     Jackman)
   - Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
   - Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
   - Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)

  Percpu code:
   - Standardize &amp; reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
   - Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
   - Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)

  MM:
   - Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
     instruction (Rik van Riel)
   - Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
   - PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
     Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
   - Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
     (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
   - Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
     (Matthew Wilcox)

  KASLR:
   - x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
     BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
     Singh)

  CPU bugs:
   - Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
   - speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
   - speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
     Gupta)
   - RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
     Gupta)

  System calls:
   - Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
   - Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)

  Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
   - selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
   - selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
   - selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling

  AMD SMN access updates:
   - Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
   - Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
   - Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)

  Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
   - Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
   - ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
   - intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
   - Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()

  Build system:
   - Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
   - Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)

  Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
   - Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
   - Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
   - Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
   - Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
   - Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
   - Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
   - Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
   - Remove old STA2x11 support
   - Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit

  Headers:
   - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
     headers (Thomas Huth)

  Assembly code &amp; machine code patching:
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
     Poimboeuf)
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
   - KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
   - x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
     &lt;asm/asm.h&gt; (Uros Bizjak)
   - Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
   - Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
     instructions (Uros Bizjak)

  Earlyprintk:
   - Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)

  NMI handler:
   - Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc &amp; use it in
     nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)

  Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
   - by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
     Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
     Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
     Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
     Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
     Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
     Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
     Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
  zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
  x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
  x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
  x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
  x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
  x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in &lt;asm/special_insns.h&gt;
  x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
  x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
  x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
  x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
  x86/head/64: Avoid Clang &lt; 17 stack protector in startup code
  x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from &lt;asm/asm.h&gt;
  x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
  x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
  x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
  x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header based on build config</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T10:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin (Intel)</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T18:47:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=841326332bcb13ae4e6cd456350bf566a402b45e'/>
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Introduce an AWK script to auto-generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header
with required and disabled feature masks based on &lt;asm/cpufeatures.h&gt;
and the current build config.

Thus for any CPU feature with a build config, e.g., X86_FRED, simply add:

  config X86_DISABLED_FEATURE_FRED
	def_bool y
	depends on !X86_FRED

to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures, instead of adding a conditional CPU
feature disable flag, e.g., DISABLE_FRED.

Lastly, the generated required and disabled feature masks will be added to
their corresponding feature masks for this particular compile-time
configuration.

  [ Xin: build integration improvements ]
  [ mingo: Improved changelog and comments ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305184725.3341760-3-xin@zytor.com
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<pre>
Introduce an AWK script to auto-generate the &lt;asm/cpufeaturemasks.h&gt; header
with required and disabled feature masks based on &lt;asm/cpufeatures.h&gt;
and the current build config.

Thus for any CPU feature with a build config, e.g., X86_FRED, simply add:

  config X86_DISABLED_FEATURE_FRED
	def_bool y
	depends on !X86_FRED

to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures, instead of adding a conditional CPU
feature disable flag, e.g., DISABLE_FRED.

Lastly, the generated required and disabled feature masks will be added to
their corresponding feature masks for this particular compile-time
configuration.

  [ Xin: build integration improvements ]
  [ mingo: Improved changelog and comments ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305184725.3341760-3-xin@zytor.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations</title>
<updated>2025-03-16T15:29:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-11T11:06:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9b400d17259b70d1d68585028e96b30152d0796a'/>
<id>9b400d17259b70d1d68585028e96b30152d0796a</id>
<content type='text'>
Some architectures build vmlinux with static relocations preserved, but
strip them again from the final vmlinux image. Arch specific tools
consume these static relocations in order to construct relocation tables
for KASLR.

The fact that vmlinux is created, consumed and subsequently updated goes
against the typical, declarative paradigm used by Make, which is based
on rules and dependencies. So as a first step towards cleaning this up,
introduce a Kconfig symbol to declare that the arch wants to consume the
static relocations emitted into vmlinux. This will be wired up further
in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Some architectures build vmlinux with static relocations preserved, but
strip them again from the final vmlinux image. Arch specific tools
consume these static relocations in order to construct relocation tables
for KASLR.

The fact that vmlinux is created, consumed and subsequently updated goes
against the typical, declarative paradigm used by Make, which is based
on rules and dependencies. So as a first step towards cleaning this up,
introduce a Kconfig symbol to declare that the arch wants to consume the
static relocations emitted into vmlinux. This will be wired up further
in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hardening: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-08T04:29:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d70da12453ac3797e0c54884305ccc894e8c817b'/>
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<content type='text'>
The i386 regparm bug exposed with FORTIFY_SOURCE with Clang was fixed
in Clang 16[1].

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c167c0a4dcdb998affb2756ce76903a12f7d8ca5 [1]
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308042929.1753543-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The i386 regparm bug exposed with FORTIFY_SOURCE with Clang was fixed
in Clang 16[1].

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c167c0a4dcdb998affb2756ce76903a12f7d8ca5 [1]
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308042929.1753543-2-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/build: Remove -ffreestanding on i386 with GCC</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T17:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-08T04:29:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=16cb16e0d28501f6eef7071675f1ffbceea8dd0d'/>
<id>16cb16e0d28501f6eef7071675f1ffbceea8dd0d</id>
<content type='text'>
The use of -ffreestanding is a leftover that is only needed for certain
versions of Clang. Adjust this to be Clang-only. A later patch will make
this a versioned check.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308042929.1753543-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The use of -ffreestanding is a leftover that is only needed for certain
versions of Clang. Adjust this to be Clang-only. A later patch will make
this a versioned check.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308042929.1753543-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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