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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T23:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T23:47:02+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt
  improvements.

  x86:
   - userspace can now hide nested VMX features from guests
   - nested VMX can now run Hyper-V in a guest
   - support for AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_FMAPS in KVM
   - infrastructure support for virtual Intel GPUs.

  PPC:
   - support for KVM guests on POWER9
   - improved support for interrupt polling
   - optimizations and cleanups.

  s390:
   - two small optimizations, more stuff is in flight and will be in
     4.11.

  ARM:
   - support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
  arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
  KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Check for properly initialized timer on init
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Limit ITARGETSR bits to number of VCPUs
  KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API
  KVM: nVMX: invvpid handling improvements
  KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit
  KVM: nVMX: introduce nested_vmx_load_cr3 and call it on vmentry
  KVM: nVMX: propagate errors from prepare_vmcs02
  KVM: nVMX: fix CR3 load if L2 uses PAE paging and EPT
  KVM: nVMX: load GUEST_EFER after GUEST_CR0 during emulated VM-entry
  KVM: nVMX: generate MSR_IA32_CR{0,4}_FIXED1 from guest CPUID
  KVM: nVMX: fix checks on CR{0,4} during virtual VMX operation
  KVM: nVMX: support restore of VMX capability MSRs
  KVM: nVMX: generate non-true VMX MSRs based on true versions
  KVM: x86: Do not clear RFLAGS.TF when a singlestep trap occurs.
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_skip_emulated_instruction and use it.
  KVM: VMX: Move skip_emulated_instruction out of nested_vmx_check_vmcs12
  KVM: VMX: Reorder some skip_emulated_instruction calls
  KVM: x86: Add a return value to kvm_emulate_cpuid
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt
  improvements.

  x86:
   - userspace can now hide nested VMX features from guests
   - nested VMX can now run Hyper-V in a guest
   - support for AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_FMAPS in KVM
   - infrastructure support for virtual Intel GPUs.

  PPC:
   - support for KVM guests on POWER9
   - improved support for interrupt polling
   - optimizations and cleanups.

  s390:
   - two small optimizations, more stuff is in flight and will be in
     4.11.

  ARM:
   - support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
  arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
  KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Check for properly initialized timer on init
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Limit ITARGETSR bits to number of VCPUs
  KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API
  KVM: nVMX: invvpid handling improvements
  KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit
  KVM: nVMX: introduce nested_vmx_load_cr3 and call it on vmentry
  KVM: nVMX: propagate errors from prepare_vmcs02
  KVM: nVMX: fix CR3 load if L2 uses PAE paging and EPT
  KVM: nVMX: load GUEST_EFER after GUEST_CR0 during emulated VM-entry
  KVM: nVMX: generate MSR_IA32_CR{0,4}_FIXED1 from guest CPUID
  KVM: nVMX: fix checks on CR{0,4} during virtual VMX operation
  KVM: nVMX: support restore of VMX capability MSRs
  KVM: nVMX: generate non-true VMX MSRs based on true versions
  KVM: x86: Do not clear RFLAGS.TF when a singlestep trap occurs.
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_skip_emulated_instruction and use it.
  KVM: VMX: Move skip_emulated_instruction out of nested_vmx_check_vmcs12
  KVM: VMX: Reorder some skip_emulated_instruction calls
  KVM: x86: Add a return value to kvm_emulate_cpuid
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T21:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T21:49:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher
     robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc.
     (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with
     the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski)

   - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support
     infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela,
     He Chen)

   - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov)

   - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov)

   - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov)

   - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86
  x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size
  x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible
  selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu()
  x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
  x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl()
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features
  x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf()
  x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions
  x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
  x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success
  x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
  x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion
  x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
  x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails
  x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful
  mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()
  x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher
     robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc.
     (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with
     the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski)

   - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support
     infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela,
     He Chen)

   - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov)

   - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov)

   - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov)

   - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86
  x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size
  x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible
  selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu()
  x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
  x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl()
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features
  x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf()
  x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions
  x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
  x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success
  x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
  x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion
  x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
  x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails
  x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful
  mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()
  x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T20:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T20:58:50+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - more AMD northbridge support work, mostly in preparation for Fam17h
     CPUs (Yazen Ghannam, Borislav Petkov)

   - cleanups/refactorings and fixes (Borislav Petkov, Tony Luck,
     Yinghai Lu)"

* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Include the PPIN in MCE records when available
  x86/mce/AMD: Add system physical address translation for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add SMN and Indirect Data Fabric access for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add Fam17h Data Fabric as "Northbridge"
  x86/amd_nb: Make all exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  x86/amd_nb: Make amd_northbridges internal to amd_nb.c
  x86/mce/AMD: Reset Threshold Limit after logging error
  x86/mce/AMD: Fix HWID_MCATYPE calculation by grouping arguments
  x86/MCE: Correct TSC timestamping of error records
  x86/RAS: Hide SMCA bank names
  x86/RAS: Rename smca_bank_names to smca_names
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA HWID descriptor struct
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA bank descriptor struct
  x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers
  x86/RAS: Add TSC timestamp to the injected MCE
  x86/MCE: Do not look at panic_on_oops in the severity grading
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Pull x86 RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - more AMD northbridge support work, mostly in preparation for Fam17h
     CPUs (Yazen Ghannam, Borislav Petkov)

   - cleanups/refactorings and fixes (Borislav Petkov, Tony Luck,
     Yinghai Lu)"

* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Include the PPIN in MCE records when available
  x86/mce/AMD: Add system physical address translation for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add SMN and Indirect Data Fabric access for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add Fam17h Data Fabric as "Northbridge"
  x86/amd_nb: Make all exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  x86/amd_nb: Make amd_northbridges internal to amd_nb.c
  x86/mce/AMD: Reset Threshold Limit after logging error
  x86/mce/AMD: Fix HWID_MCATYPE calculation by grouping arguments
  x86/MCE: Correct TSC timestamping of error records
  x86/RAS: Hide SMCA bank names
  x86/RAS: Rename smca_bank_names to smca_names
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA HWID descriptor struct
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA bank descriptor struct
  x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers
  x86/RAS: Add TSC timestamp to the injected MCE
  x86/MCE: Do not look at panic_on_oops in the severity grading
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T18:48:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T18:48:02+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The tree got pretty big in this development cycle, but the net effect
  is pretty good:

    115 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 1522 deletions(-)

  The main changes were:

   - Rework and generalize the mutex code to remove per arch mutex
     primitives. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add vCPU preemption support: add an interface to query the
     preemption status of vCPUs and use it in locking primitives - this
     optimizes paravirt performance. (Pan Xinhui, Juergen Gross,
     Christian Borntraeger)

   - Introduce cpu_relax_yield() and remov cpu_relax_lowlatency() to
     clean up and improve the s390 lock yielding machinery and its core
     kernel impact. (Christian Borntraeger)

   - Micro-optimize mutexes some more. (Waiman Long)

   - Reluctantly add the to-be-deprecated mutex_trylock_recursive()
     interface on a temporary basis, to give the DRM code more time to
     get rid of its locking hacks. Any other users will be NAK-ed on
     sight. (We turned off the deprecation warning for the time being to
     not pollute the build log.) (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve the rtmutex code a bit, in light of recent long lived
     bugs/races. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Misc fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Fix bool return type for PVOP_CALL()
  x86/paravirt: Fix native_patch()
  locking/ww_mutex: Use relaxed atomics
  locking/rtmutex: Explain locking rules for rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()/init_proxy_locked()
  locking/rtmutex: Get rid of RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL
  x86/paravirt: Optimize native pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted()
  locking/mutex: Break out of expensive busy-loop on {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner() when owner vCPU is preempted
  locking/osq: Break out of spin-wait busy waiting loop for a preempted vCPU in osq_lock()
  Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/xen: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
  locking/core, x86/paravirt: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) for KVM and Xen guests
  locking/spinlocks, s390: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  locking/core, powerpc: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface
  sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q
  locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition
  locking/mutex: Don't mark mutex_trylock_recursive() as deprecated, temporarily
  ...
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The tree got pretty big in this development cycle, but the net effect
  is pretty good:

    115 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 1522 deletions(-)

  The main changes were:

   - Rework and generalize the mutex code to remove per arch mutex
     primitives. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add vCPU preemption support: add an interface to query the
     preemption status of vCPUs and use it in locking primitives - this
     optimizes paravirt performance. (Pan Xinhui, Juergen Gross,
     Christian Borntraeger)

   - Introduce cpu_relax_yield() and remov cpu_relax_lowlatency() to
     clean up and improve the s390 lock yielding machinery and its core
     kernel impact. (Christian Borntraeger)

   - Micro-optimize mutexes some more. (Waiman Long)

   - Reluctantly add the to-be-deprecated mutex_trylock_recursive()
     interface on a temporary basis, to give the DRM code more time to
     get rid of its locking hacks. Any other users will be NAK-ed on
     sight. (We turned off the deprecation warning for the time being to
     not pollute the build log.) (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve the rtmutex code a bit, in light of recent long lived
     bugs/races. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Misc fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Fix bool return type for PVOP_CALL()
  x86/paravirt: Fix native_patch()
  locking/ww_mutex: Use relaxed atomics
  locking/rtmutex: Explain locking rules for rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()/init_proxy_locked()
  locking/rtmutex: Get rid of RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL
  x86/paravirt: Optimize native pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted()
  locking/mutex: Break out of expensive busy-loop on {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner() when owner vCPU is preempted
  locking/osq: Break out of spin-wait busy waiting loop for a preempted vCPU in osq_lock()
  Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/xen: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
  locking/core, x86/paravirt: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) for KVM and Xen guests
  locking/spinlocks, s390: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  locking/core, powerpc: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface
  sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q
  locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition
  locking/mutex: Don't mark mutex_trylock_recursive() as deprecated, temporarily
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit</title>
<updated>2016-12-08T14:31:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ladi Prosek</name>
<email>lprosek@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-30T15:03:11+00:00</published>
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This commit adds missing host CR3 checks. Before entering guest mode, the value
of CR3 is checked for reserved bits. After returning, nested_vmx_load_cr3 is
called to set the new CR3 value and check and load PDPTRs.

Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek &lt;lprosek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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This commit adds missing host CR3 checks. Before entering guest mode, the value
of CR3 is checked for reserved bits. After returning, nested_vmx_load_cr3 is
called to set the new CR3 value and check and load PDPTRs.

Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek &lt;lprosek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mce: Include the PPIN in MCE records when available</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T15:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-18T17:48:36+00:00</published>
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Intel Xeons from Ivy Bridge onwards support a processor identification
number set in the factory. To the user this is a handy unique number to
identify a particular CPU. Intel can decode this to the fab/production
run to track errors. On systems that have it, include it in the machine
check record. I'm told that this would be helpful for users that run
large data centers with multi-socket servers to keep track of which CPUs
are seeing errors.

Boris:
* Add some clarifying comments and spacing.
* Mask out [63:2] in the disabled-but-not-locked case
* Call the MSR variable "val" for more readability.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-edac &lt;linux-edac@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161123114855.njguoaygp3qnbkia@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Intel Xeons from Ivy Bridge onwards support a processor identification
number set in the factory. To the user this is a handy unique number to
identify a particular CPU. Intel can decode this to the fab/production
run to track errors. On systems that have it, include it in the machine
check record. I'm told that this would be helpful for users that run
large data centers with multi-socket servers to keep track of which CPUs
are seeing errors.

Boris:
* Add some clarifying comments and spacing.
* Mask out [63:2] in the disabled-but-not-locked case
* Call the MSR variable "val" for more readability.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-edac &lt;linux-edac@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161123114855.njguoaygp3qnbkia@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check</title>
<updated>2016-11-22T11:48:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pan Xinhui</name>
<email>xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T09:08:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0b9f6c4615c993d2b552e0d2bd1ade49b56e5beb'/>
<id>0b9f6c4615c993d2b552e0d2bd1ade49b56e5beb</id>
<content type='text'>
Support the vcpu_is_preempted() functionality under KVM. This will
enhance lock performance on overcommitted hosts (more runnable vCPUs
than physical CPUs in the system) as doing busy waits for preempted
vCPUs will hurt system performance far worse than early yielding.

Use struct kvm_steal_time::preempted to indicate that if a vCPU
is running or not.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui &lt;xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-9-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Support the vcpu_is_preempted() functionality under KVM. This will
enhance lock performance on overcommitted hosts (more runnable vCPUs
than physical CPUs in the system) as doing busy waits for preempted
vCPUs will hurt system performance far worse than early yielding.

Use struct kvm_steal_time::preempted to indicate that if a vCPU
is running or not.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui &lt;xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-9-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties</title>
<updated>2016-11-13T07:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-12T21:32:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=58c5475aba67706b31d9237808d5d3d54074e5ea'/>
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<content type='text'>
Apple's EFI drivers supply device properties which are needed to support
Macs optimally. They contain vital information which cannot be obtained
any other way (e.g. Thunderbolt Device ROM). They're also used to convey
the current device state so that OS drivers can pick up where EFI
drivers left (e.g. GPU mode setting).

There's an EFI driver dubbed "AAPL,PathProperties" which implements a
per-device key/value store. Other EFI drivers populate it using a custom
protocol. The macOS bootloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
retrieves the properties with the same protocol. The kernel extension
AppleACPIPlatform.kext subsequently merges them into the I/O Kit
registry (see ioreg(8)) where they can be queried by other kernel
extensions and user space.

This commit extends the efistub to retrieve the device properties before
ExitBootServices is called. It assigns them to devices in an fs_initcall
so that they can be queried with the API in &lt;linux/property.h&gt;.

Note that the device properties will only be available if the kernel is
booted with the efistub. Distros should adjust their installers to
always use the efistub on Macs. grub with the "linux" directive will not
work unless the functionality of this commit is duplicated in grub.
(The "linuxefi" directive should work but is not included upstream as of
this writing.)

The custom protocol has GUID 91BD12FE-F6C3-44FB-A5B7-5122AB303AE0 and
looks like this:

typedef struct {
	unsigned long version; /* 0x10000 */
	efi_status_t (*get) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
	efi_status_t (*set) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		IN	void *property_value,
		IN	u32 property_value_len);
		/* allocates copies of property name and value */
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES */
	efi_status_t (*del) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND */
	efi_status_t (*get_all) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
} apple_properties_protocol;

Thanks to Pedro Vilaça for this blog post which was helpful in reverse
engineering Apple's EFI drivers and bootloader:
https://reverse.put.as/2016/06/25/apple-efi-firmware-passwords-and-the-scbo-myth/

If someone at Apple is reading this, please note there's a memory leak
in your implementation of the del() function as the property struct is
freed but the name and value allocations are not.

Neither the macOS bootloader nor Apple's EFI drivers check the protocol
version, but we do to avoid breakage if it's ever changed. It's been the
same since at least OS X 10.6 (2009).

The get_all() function conveniently fills a buffer with all properties
in marshalled form which can be passed to the kernel as a setup_data
payload. The number of device properties is dynamic and can change
between a first invocation of get_all() (to determine the buffer size)
and a second invocation (to retrieve the actual buffer), hence the
peculiar loop which does not finish until the buffer size settles.
The macOS bootloader does the same.

The setup_data payload is later on unmarshalled in an fs_initcall. The
idea is that most buses instantiate devices in "subsys" initcall level
and drivers are usually bound to these devices in "device" initcall
level, so we assign the properties in-between, i.e. in "fs" initcall
level.

This assumes that devices to which properties pertain are instantiated
from a "subsys" initcall or earlier. That should always be the case
since on macOS, AppleACPIPlatformExpert::matchEFIDevicePath() only
supports ACPI and PCI nodes and we've fully scanned those buses during
"subsys" initcall level.

The second assumption is that properties are only needed from a "device"
initcall or later. Seems reasonable to me, but should this ever not work
out, an alternative approach would be to store the property sets e.g. in
a btree early during boot. Then whenever device_add() is called, an EFI
Device Path would have to be constructed for the newly added device,
and looked up in the btree. That way, the property set could be assigned
to the device immediately on instantiation. And this would also work for
devices instantiated in a deferred fashion. It seems like this approach
would be more complicated and require more code. That doesn't seem
justified without a specific use case.

For comparison, the strategy on macOS is to assign properties to objects
in the ACPI namespace (AppleACPIPlatformExpert::mergeEFIProperties()).
That approach is definitely wrong as it fails for devices not present in
the namespace: The NHI EFI driver supplies properties for attached
Thunderbolt devices, yet on Macs with Thunderbolt 1 only one device
level behind the host controller is described in the namespace.
Consequently macOS cannot assign properties for chained devices. With
Thunderbolt 2 they started to describe three device levels behind host
controllers in the namespace but this grossly inflates the SSDT and
still fails if the user daisy-chained more than three devices.

We copy the property names and values from the setup_data payload to
swappable virtual memory and afterwards make the payload available to
the page allocator. This is just for the sake of good housekeeping, it
wouldn't occupy a meaningful amount of physical memory (4444 bytes on my
machine). Only the payload is freed, not the setup_data header since
otherwise we'd break the list linkage and we cannot safely update the
predecessor's -&gt;next link because there's no locking for the list.

The payload is currently not passed on to kexec'ed kernels, same for PCI
ROMs retrieved by setup_efi_pci(). This can be added later if there is
demand by amending setup_efi_state(). The payload can then no longer be
made available to the page allocator of course.

Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt; [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Pierre Moreau &lt;pierre.morrow@free.fr&gt; [MacBookPro11,3]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Vilaça &lt;reverser@put.as&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-9-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Apple's EFI drivers supply device properties which are needed to support
Macs optimally. They contain vital information which cannot be obtained
any other way (e.g. Thunderbolt Device ROM). They're also used to convey
the current device state so that OS drivers can pick up where EFI
drivers left (e.g. GPU mode setting).

There's an EFI driver dubbed "AAPL,PathProperties" which implements a
per-device key/value store. Other EFI drivers populate it using a custom
protocol. The macOS bootloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
retrieves the properties with the same protocol. The kernel extension
AppleACPIPlatform.kext subsequently merges them into the I/O Kit
registry (see ioreg(8)) where they can be queried by other kernel
extensions and user space.

This commit extends the efistub to retrieve the device properties before
ExitBootServices is called. It assigns them to devices in an fs_initcall
so that they can be queried with the API in &lt;linux/property.h&gt;.

Note that the device properties will only be available if the kernel is
booted with the efistub. Distros should adjust their installers to
always use the efistub on Macs. grub with the "linux" directive will not
work unless the functionality of this commit is duplicated in grub.
(The "linuxefi" directive should work but is not included upstream as of
this writing.)

The custom protocol has GUID 91BD12FE-F6C3-44FB-A5B7-5122AB303AE0 and
looks like this:

typedef struct {
	unsigned long version; /* 0x10000 */
	efi_status_t (*get) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
	efi_status_t (*set) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		IN	void *property_value,
		IN	u32 property_value_len);
		/* allocates copies of property name and value */
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES */
	efi_status_t (*del) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND */
	efi_status_t (*get_all) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
} apple_properties_protocol;

Thanks to Pedro Vilaça for this blog post which was helpful in reverse
engineering Apple's EFI drivers and bootloader:
https://reverse.put.as/2016/06/25/apple-efi-firmware-passwords-and-the-scbo-myth/

If someone at Apple is reading this, please note there's a memory leak
in your implementation of the del() function as the property struct is
freed but the name and value allocations are not.

Neither the macOS bootloader nor Apple's EFI drivers check the protocol
version, but we do to avoid breakage if it's ever changed. It's been the
same since at least OS X 10.6 (2009).

The get_all() function conveniently fills a buffer with all properties
in marshalled form which can be passed to the kernel as a setup_data
payload. The number of device properties is dynamic and can change
between a first invocation of get_all() (to determine the buffer size)
and a second invocation (to retrieve the actual buffer), hence the
peculiar loop which does not finish until the buffer size settles.
The macOS bootloader does the same.

The setup_data payload is later on unmarshalled in an fs_initcall. The
idea is that most buses instantiate devices in "subsys" initcall level
and drivers are usually bound to these devices in "device" initcall
level, so we assign the properties in-between, i.e. in "fs" initcall
level.

This assumes that devices to which properties pertain are instantiated
from a "subsys" initcall or earlier. That should always be the case
since on macOS, AppleACPIPlatformExpert::matchEFIDevicePath() only
supports ACPI and PCI nodes and we've fully scanned those buses during
"subsys" initcall level.

The second assumption is that properties are only needed from a "device"
initcall or later. Seems reasonable to me, but should this ever not work
out, an alternative approach would be to store the property sets e.g. in
a btree early during boot. Then whenever device_add() is called, an EFI
Device Path would have to be constructed for the newly added device,
and looked up in the btree. That way, the property set could be assigned
to the device immediately on instantiation. And this would also work for
devices instantiated in a deferred fashion. It seems like this approach
would be more complicated and require more code. That doesn't seem
justified without a specific use case.

For comparison, the strategy on macOS is to assign properties to objects
in the ACPI namespace (AppleACPIPlatformExpert::mergeEFIProperties()).
That approach is definitely wrong as it fails for devices not present in
the namespace: The NHI EFI driver supplies properties for attached
Thunderbolt devices, yet on Macs with Thunderbolt 1 only one device
level behind the host controller is described in the namespace.
Consequently macOS cannot assign properties for chained devices. With
Thunderbolt 2 they started to describe three device levels behind host
controllers in the namespace but this grossly inflates the SSDT and
still fails if the user daisy-chained more than three devices.

We copy the property names and values from the setup_data payload to
swappable virtual memory and afterwards make the payload available to
the page allocator. This is just for the sake of good housekeeping, it
wouldn't occupy a meaningful amount of physical memory (4444 bytes on my
machine). Only the payload is freed, not the setup_data header since
otherwise we'd break the list linkage and we cannot safely update the
predecessor's -&gt;next link because there's no locking for the list.

The payload is currently not passed on to kexec'ed kernels, same for PCI
ROMs retrieved by setup_efi_pci(). This can be added later if there is
demand by amending setup_efi_state(). The payload can then no longer be
made available to the page allocator of course.

Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt; [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Pierre Moreau &lt;pierre.morrow@free.fr&gt; [MacBookPro11,3]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Vilaça &lt;reverser@put.as&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-9-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: nVMX: support descriptor table exits</title>
<updated>2016-11-02T20:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T14:06:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1b07304c587d4fe572ea50bdefaa6047dc9a6d1a'/>
<id>1b07304c587d4fe572ea50bdefaa6047dc9a6d1a</id>
<content type='text'>
These are never used by the host, but they can still be reflected to
the guest.

Tested-by: Ladi Prosek &lt;lprosek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
These are never used by the host, but they can still be reflected to
the guest.

Tested-by: Ladi Prosek &lt;lprosek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE</title>
<updated>2016-10-28T06:15:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dsafonov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-27T14:15:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a01aa6c9f40fe03c82032e7f8b3bcf1e6c93ac0e'/>
<id>a01aa6c9f40fe03c82032e7f8b3bcf1e6c93ac0e</id>
<content type='text'>
As userspace knows nothing about kernel config, thus #ifdefs
around ABI prctl constants makes them invisible to userspace.

Let it be clean'n'simple: remove #ifdefs.

If kernel has CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE disabled, sys_prctl()
will return -EINVAL for those prctls.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Fixes: 2eefd8789698 ("x86/arch_prctl/vdso: Add ARCH_MAP_VDSO_*")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027141516.28447-2-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As userspace knows nothing about kernel config, thus #ifdefs
around ABI prctl constants makes them invisible to userspace.

Let it be clean'n'simple: remove #ifdefs.

If kernel has CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE disabled, sys_prctl()
will return -EINVAL for those prctls.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Fixes: 2eefd8789698 ("x86/arch_prctl/vdso: Add ARCH_MAP_VDSO_*")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027141516.28447-2-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
