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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>efi: Build EFI stub with EFI-appropriate options</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T20:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Garrett</name>
<email>mjg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T22:00:00+00:00</published>
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commit 9dead5bbb825d7c25c0400e61de83075046322d0 upstream.

We can't assume the presence of the red zone while we're still in a boot
services environment, so we should build with -fno-red-zone to avoid
problems. Change the size of wchar at the same time to make string handling
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9dead5bbb825d7c25c0400e61de83075046322d0 upstream.

We can't assume the presence of the red zone while we're still in a boot
services environment, so we should build with -fno-red-zone to avoid
problems. Change the size of wchar at the same time to make string handling
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool</title>
<updated>2012-05-19T02:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T18:22:24+00:00</published>
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A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, relocs: Remove an unused variable</title>
<updated>2012-04-30T19:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kusanagi Kouichi</name>
<email>slash@ac.auone-net.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-01T08:29:32+00:00</published>
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sh_symtab is set but not used.

[ hpa: putting this in urgent because of the sheer harmlessness of the patch:
  it quiets a build warning but does not change any generated code. ]

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ac.auone-net.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120401082932.D5E066FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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sh_symtab is set but not used.

[ hpa: putting this in urgent because of the sheer harmlessness of the patch:
  it quiets a build warning but does not change any generated code. ]

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi &lt;slash@ac.auone-net.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120401082932.D5E066FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, efi: Add dedicated EFI stub entry point</title>
<updated>2012-04-16T18:41:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-15T15:06:04+00:00</published>
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The method used to work out whether we were booted by EFI firmware or
via a boot loader is broken. Because efi_main() is always executed
when booting from a boot loader we will dereference invalid pointers
either on the stack (CONFIG_X86_32) or contained in %rdx
(CONFIG_X86_64) when searching for an EFI System Table signature.

Instead of dereferencing these invalid system table pointers, add a
new entry point that is only used when booting from EFI firmware, when
we know the pointer arguments will be valid. With this change legacy
boot loaders will no longer execute efi_main(), but will instead skip
EFI stub initialisation completely.

[ hpa: Marking this for urgent/stable since it is a regression when
  the option is enabled; without the option the patch has no effect ]

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.hfleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334584744.26997.14.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Reported-by: Jordan Justen &lt;jordan.l.justen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; v3.3
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The method used to work out whether we were booted by EFI firmware or
via a boot loader is broken. Because efi_main() is always executed
when booting from a boot loader we will dereference invalid pointers
either on the stack (CONFIG_X86_32) or contained in %rdx
(CONFIG_X86_64) when searching for an EFI System Table signature.

Instead of dereferencing these invalid system table pointers, add a
new entry point that is only used when booting from EFI firmware, when
we know the pointer arguments will be valid. With this change legacy
boot loaders will no longer execute efi_main(), but will instead skip
EFI stub initialisation completely.

[ hpa: Marking this for urgent/stable since it is a regression when
  the option is enabled; without the option the patch has no effect ]

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.hfleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334584744.26997.14.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Reported-by: Jordan Justen &lt;jordan.l.justen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; v3.3
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, boot: Correct CFLAGS for hostprogs</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T19:42:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T18:08:18+00:00</published>
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This is a partial revert of commit:
    d40f833 "Restrict CFLAGS for hostprogs"

The endian-manipulation macros in tools/include need &lt;linux/types.h&gt;,
but the hostprogs in arch/x86/boot need several headers from the
kernel build tree, which means we have to add the kernel headers to
the include path.  This picks up &lt;linux/types.h&gt; from the kernel tree,
which gives a warning.

Since this use of &lt;linux/types.h&gt; is intentional, add
-D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ to the command line to silence the warning.

A better way to fix this would be to always install the exported
kernel headers into $(objtree)/usr/include as a standard part of the
kernel build, but that is a lot more involved.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330436245-24875-5-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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This is a partial revert of commit:
    d40f833 "Restrict CFLAGS for hostprogs"

The endian-manipulation macros in tools/include need &lt;linux/types.h&gt;,
but the hostprogs in arch/x86/boot need several headers from the
kernel build tree, which means we have to add the kernel headers to
the include path.  This picks up &lt;linux/types.h&gt; from the kernel tree,
which gives a warning.

Since this use of &lt;linux/types.h&gt; is intentional, add
-D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ to the command line to silence the warning.

A better way to fix this would be to always install the exported
kernel headers into $(objtree)/usr/include as a standard part of the
kernel build, but that is a lot more involved.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330436245-24875-5-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:44:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:44:50+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 "urgent" leftovers from Ingo Molnar:
 "Pending x86/urgent bits that were not high prio enough to warrant
  -rc-less v3.3-final inclusion."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: Fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()
  x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries
  x86, mce: Fix rcu splat in drain_mce_log_buffer()
  x86, memblock: Move mem_hole_size() to .init
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Pull x86 "urgent" leftovers from Ingo Molnar:
 "Pending x86/urgent bits that were not high prio enough to warrant
  -rc-less v3.3-final inclusion."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: Fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()
  x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries
  x86, mce: Fix rcu splat in drain_mce_log_buffer()
  x86, memblock: Move mem_hole_size() to .init
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:40:53+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/build changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, build: Fix portability issues when cross-building
  x86, tools: Remove unneeded header files from tools/build.c
  USB: ffs-test: Don't duplicate {get,put}_unaligned*() functions
  x86, efi: Fix endian issues and unaligned accesses
  x86, boot: Restrict CFLAGS for hostprogs
  x86, mkpiggy: Don't open code put_unaligned_le32()
  x86, relocs: Don't open code put_unaligned_le32()
  tools/include: Add byteshift headers for endian access
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Pull x86/build changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, build: Fix portability issues when cross-building
  x86, tools: Remove unneeded header files from tools/build.c
  USB: ffs-test: Don't duplicate {get,put}_unaligned*() functions
  x86, efi: Fix endian issues and unaligned accesses
  x86, boot: Restrict CFLAGS for hostprogs
  x86, mkpiggy: Don't open code put_unaligned_le32()
  x86, relocs: Don't open code put_unaligned_le32()
  tools/include: Add byteshift headers for endian access
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'x86-cpu-for-linus', 'x86-boot-for-linus', 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus', 'x86-process-for-linus' and 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:28:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:28:15+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial x86 branches from Ingo Molnar: small one-liners to fix up
details.

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove some noise from boot log when starting cpus

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, boot: Fix port argument to inl() function

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpufeature: Add CPU features from Intel document 319433-012A

* 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins

* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/UV: Lower UV rtc clocksource rating
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Pull trivial x86 branches from Ingo Molnar: small one-liners to fix up
details.

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove some noise from boot log when starting cpus

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, boot: Fix port argument to inl() function

* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, cpufeature: Add CPU features from Intel document 319433-012A

* 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86_64: Record stack pointer before task execution begins

* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/UV: Lower UV rtc clocksource rating
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, efi: Fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()</title>
<updated>2012-03-16T20:03:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-05T18:06:14+00:00</published>
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"filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching the end
of the array doesn't work.  We need to cast the pointer to (u8 *) before
doing the math.

This patch changes the "filename" to "filename_16" to avoid confusion in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305180614.GA26880@elgon.mountain
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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"filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching the end
of the array doesn't work.  We need to cast the pointer to (u8 *) before
doing the math.

This patch changes the "filename" to "filename_16" to avoid confusion in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305180614.GA26880@elgon.mountain
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, build: Fix portability issues when cross-building</title>
<updated>2012-02-29T07:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-29T07:36:21+00:00</published>
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It would appear that we never actually generated a correct CRC when
building on a bigendian machine.  Depending on the word size, we would
either generate an all-zero CRC (64-bit machine) or a byte-swapped
CRC (32-bit machine.)  Fix the types used so we don't arbitrarily use
a 64-bit word to hold 32-bit numbers, and pass the CRC through
put_unaligned_le32() like all the other numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Bowler &lt;nbowler@elliptictech.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120229111322.9eb4b23ff1672e8853ad3b3b@canb.auug.org.au
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It would appear that we never actually generated a correct CRC when
building on a bigendian machine.  Depending on the word size, we would
either generate an all-zero CRC (64-bit machine) or a byte-swapped
CRC (32-bit machine.)  Fix the types used so we don't arbitrarily use
a 64-bit word to hold 32-bit numbers, and pass the CRC through
put_unaligned_le32() like all the other numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Bowler &lt;nbowler@elliptictech.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120229111322.9eb4b23ff1672e8853ad3b3b@canb.auug.org.au
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