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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm, branch v4.2.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Northup</name>
<email>digitaleric@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-03T17:03:53+00:00</published>
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commit 54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed upstream.

It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).

Signed-off-by: Eric Northup &lt;digitaleric@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed upstream.

It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).

Signed-off-by: Eric Northup &lt;digitaleric@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Revert x86 sigcontext cleanups</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T19:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-13T15:25:20+00:00</published>
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This reverts commits 9a036b93a344 ("x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs'
from sigcontext") and c6f2062935c8 ("x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for
signals delivered to 64-bit programs").

They were cleanups, but they break dosemu by changing the signal return
behavior (and removing 'fs' and 'gs' from the sigcontext struct - while
not actually changing any behavior - causes build problems).

Reported-and-tested-by: Stas Sergeev &lt;stsp@list.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commits 9a036b93a344 ("x86/signal/64: Remove 'fs' and 'gs'
from sigcontext") and c6f2062935c8 ("x86/signal/64: Fix SS handling for
signals delivered to 64-bit programs").

They were cleanups, but they break dosemu by changing the signal return
behavior (and removing 'fs' and 'gs' from the sigcontext struct - while
not actually changing any behavior - causes build problems).

Reported-and-tested-by: Stas Sergeev &lt;stsp@list.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: rename quirk constants to KVM_X86_QUIRK_*</title>
<updated>2015-07-23T06:24:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-23T06:24:42+00:00</published>
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Make them clearly architecture-dependent; the capability is valid for
all architectures, but the argument is not.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Make them clearly architecture-dependent; the capability is valid for
all architectures, but the argument is not.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: hyperv: add CPUID bit for crash handlers</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T11:25:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-07T10:17:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: add hyper-v crash msrs values</title>
<updated>2015-07-03T16:55:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Smetanin</name>
<email>asmetanin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-02T16:07:46+00:00</published>
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Added Hyper-V crash msrs values - HV_X64_MSR_CRASH*.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin &lt;asmetanin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hornyack &lt;peterhornyack@google.com&gt;
CC: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Added Hyper-V crash msrs values - HV_X64_MSR_CRASH*.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin &lt;asmetanin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hornyack &lt;peterhornyack@google.com&gt;
CC: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-06-24T16:36:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T16:36:49+00:00</published>
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Pull first batch of KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The bulk of the changes here is for x86.  And for once it's not for
  silicon that no one owns: these are really new features for everyone.

  Details:

   - ARM:
        several features are in progress but missed the 4.2 deadline.
        So here is just a smattering of bug fixes, plus enabling the
        VFIO integration.

   - s390:
        Some fixes/refactorings/optimizations, plus support for 2GB
        pages.

   - x86:
        * host and guest support for marking kvmclock as a stable
          scheduler clock.
        * support for write combining.
        * support for system management mode, needed for secure boot in
          guests.
        * a bunch of cleanups required for the above
        * support for virtualized performance counters on AMD
        * legacy PCI device assignment is deprecated and defaults to "n"
          in Kconfig; VFIO replaces it

        On top of this there are also bug fixes and eager FPU context
        loading for FPU-heavy guests.

   - Common code:
        Support for multiple address spaces; for now it is used only for
        x86 SMM but the s390 folks also have plans"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (124 commits)
  KVM: s390: clear floating interrupt bitmap and parameters
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Enable PMU handling for AMD PERFCTRn and EVNTSELn MSRs
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Implement AMD vPMU code for KVM
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Define kvm_pmu_ops to support vPMU function dispatch
  KVM: x86/vPMU: introduce kvm_pmu_msr_idx_to_pmc
  KVM: x86/vPMU: reorder PMU functions
  KVM: x86/vPMU: whitespace and stylistic adjustments in PMU code
  KVM: x86/vPMU: use the new macros to go between PMC, PMU and VCPU
  KVM: x86/vPMU: introduce pmu.h header
  KVM: x86/vPMU: rename a few PMU functions
  KVM: MTRR: do not map huge page for non-consistent range
  KVM: MTRR: simplify kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type
  KVM: MTRR: introduce mtrr_for_each_mem_type
  KVM: MTRR: introduce fixed_mtrr_addr_* functions
  KVM: MTRR: sort variable MTRRs
  KVM: MTRR: introduce var_mtrr_range
  KVM: MTRR: introduce fixed_mtrr_segment table
  KVM: MTRR: improve kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type
  KVM: MTRR: do not split 64 bits MSR content
  KVM: MTRR: clean up mtrr default type
  ...
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Pull first batch of KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The bulk of the changes here is for x86.  And for once it's not for
  silicon that no one owns: these are really new features for everyone.

  Details:

   - ARM:
        several features are in progress but missed the 4.2 deadline.
        So here is just a smattering of bug fixes, plus enabling the
        VFIO integration.

   - s390:
        Some fixes/refactorings/optimizations, plus support for 2GB
        pages.

   - x86:
        * host and guest support for marking kvmclock as a stable
          scheduler clock.
        * support for write combining.
        * support for system management mode, needed for secure boot in
          guests.
        * a bunch of cleanups required for the above
        * support for virtualized performance counters on AMD
        * legacy PCI device assignment is deprecated and defaults to "n"
          in Kconfig; VFIO replaces it

        On top of this there are also bug fixes and eager FPU context
        loading for FPU-heavy guests.

   - Common code:
        Support for multiple address spaces; for now it is used only for
        x86 SMM but the s390 folks also have plans"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (124 commits)
  KVM: s390: clear floating interrupt bitmap and parameters
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Enable PMU handling for AMD PERFCTRn and EVNTSELn MSRs
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Implement AMD vPMU code for KVM
  KVM: x86/vPMU: Define kvm_pmu_ops to support vPMU function dispatch
  KVM: x86/vPMU: introduce kvm_pmu_msr_idx_to_pmc
  KVM: x86/vPMU: reorder PMU functions
  KVM: x86/vPMU: whitespace and stylistic adjustments in PMU code
  KVM: x86/vPMU: use the new macros to go between PMC, PMU and VCPU
  KVM: x86/vPMU: introduce pmu.h header
  KVM: x86/vPMU: rename a few PMU functions
  KVM: MTRR: do not map huge page for non-consistent range
  KVM: MTRR: simplify kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type
  KVM: MTRR: introduce mtrr_for_each_mem_type
  KVM: MTRR: introduce fixed_mtrr_addr_* functions
  KVM: MTRR: sort variable MTRRs
  KVM: MTRR: introduce var_mtrr_range
  KVM: MTRR: introduce fixed_mtrr_segment table
  KVM: MTRR: improve kvm_mtrr_get_guest_memory_type
  KVM: MTRR: do not split 64 bits MSR content
  KVM: MTRR: clean up mtrr default type
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e75c73ad64478c12b3a44b86a3e7f62a4f65b93e'/>
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Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/uapi: Do not export &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt; as part of the user API headers</title>
<updated>2015-06-07T13:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-04T16:55:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b72e7464e4cf80117938e6adb8c22fdc1ca46d42'/>
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This header containing all MSRs and respective bit definitions
got exported to userspace in conjunction with the big UAPI
shuffle.

But, it doesn't belong in the UAPI headers because userspace can
do its own MSR defines and exporting them from the kernel blocks
us from doing cleanups/renames in that header. Which is
ridiculous - it is not kernel's job to export such a header and
keep MSRs list and their names stable.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-19-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This header containing all MSRs and respective bit definitions
got exported to userspace in conjunction with the big UAPI
shuffle.

But, it doesn't belong in the UAPI headers because userspace can
do its own MSR defines and exporting them from the kernel blocks
us from doing cleanups/renames in that header. Which is
ridiculous - it is not kernel's job to export such a header and
keep MSRs list and their names stable.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-19-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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