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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86: fix compile error due to X86_TRAP_NMI use in asm files</title>
<updated>2014-03-24T04:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-08T02:58:40+00:00</published>
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commit b01d4e68933ec23e43b1046fa35d593cefcf37d1 upstream.

It's an enum, not a #define, you can't use it in asm files.

Introduced in commit 5fa10196bdb5 ("x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during
early boot"), and sadly I didn't compile-test things like I should have
before pushing out.

My weak excuse is that the x86 tree generally doesn't introduce stupid
things like this (and the ARM pull afterwards doesn't cause me to do a
compile-test either, since I don't cross-compile).

Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b01d4e68933ec23e43b1046fa35d593cefcf37d1 upstream.

It's an enum, not a #define, you can't use it in asm files.

Introduced in commit 5fa10196bdb5 ("x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during
early boot"), and sadly I didn't compile-test things like I should have
before pushing out.

My weak excuse is that the x86 tree generally doesn't introduce stupid
things like this (and the ARM pull afterwards doesn't cause me to do a
compile-test either, since I don't cross-compile).

Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot</title>
<updated>2014-03-24T04:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T23:05:20+00:00</published>
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commit 5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f upstream.

Don Zickus reports:

A customer generated an external NMI using their iLO to test kdump
worked.  Unfortunately, the machine hung.  Disabling the nmi_watchdog
made things work.

I speculated the external NMI fired, caused the machine to panic (as
expected) and the perf NMI from the watchdog came in and was latched.
My guess was this somehow caused the hang.

   ----

It appears that the latched NMI stays latched until the early page
table generation on 64 bits, which causes exceptions to happen which
end in IRET, which re-enable NMI.  Therefore, ignore NMIs that come in
during early execution, until we have proper exception handling.

Reported-and-tested-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394221143-29713-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f upstream.

Don Zickus reports:

A customer generated an external NMI using their iLO to test kdump
worked.  Unfortunately, the machine hung.  Disabling the nmi_watchdog
made things work.

I speculated the external NMI fired, caused the machine to panic (as
expected) and the perf NMI from the watchdog came in and was latched.
My guess was this somehow caused the hang.

   ----

It appears that the latched NMI stays latched until the early page
table generation on 64 bits, which causes exceptions to happen which
end in IRET, which re-enable NMI.  Therefore, ignore NMIs that come in
during early execution, until we have proper exception handling.

Reported-and-tested-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394221143-29713-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, head_32: Give the 6 label a real name</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T23:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T14:22:18+00:00</published>
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Jumping here we are about to enable paging so rename the label
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Jumping here we are about to enable paging so rename the label
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, head_32: Remove second CPUID detection from default_entry</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T23:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T14:22:17+00:00</published>
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We do that once earlier now and cache it into new_cpu_data.cpuid_level
so no need for the EFLAGS.ID toggling dance anymore.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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We do that once earlier now and cache it into new_cpu_data.cpuid_level
so no need for the EFLAGS.ID toggling dance anymore.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Detect CPUID support early at boot</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T23:48:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T14:22:16+00:00</published>
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We detect CPUID function support on each CPU and save it for later use,
obviating the need to play the toggle EFLAGS.ID game every time. C code
is looking at -&gt;cpuid_level anyway.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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We detect CPUID function support on each CPU and save it for later use,
obviating the need to play the toggle EFLAGS.ID game every time. C code
is looking at -&gt;cpuid_level anyway.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, head_32: Remove i386 pieces</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T23:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T14:22:15+00:00</published>
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Remove code fragments detecting a 386 CPU since we don't support those
anymore. Also, do not do alignment checks because they're done only at
CPL3. Also, no need to preserve EFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Remove code fragments detecting a 386 CPU since we don't support those
anymore. Also, do not do alignment checks because they're done only at
CPL3. Also, no need to preserve EFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:19:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T07:44:29+00:00</published>
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This updates ucode in 32-bit kernel on BSP and AP. At this point, there is no
paging and no virtual address yet.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This updates ucode in 32-bit kernel on BSP and AP. At this point, there is no
paging and no virtual address yet.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-32: Start out cr0 clean, disable paging before modifying cr3/4</title>
<updated>2013-01-19T19:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-19T18:29:37+00:00</published>
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Patch

  5a5a51db78e x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean

... made x86-32 match x86-64 in that we initialize %eflags and %cr4
from scratch.  This broke OLPC XO-1.5, because the XO enters the
kernel with paging enabled, which the kernel doesn't expect.

Since we no longer support 386 (the source of most of the variability
in %cr0 configuration), we can simply match further x86-64 and
initialize %cr0 to a fixed value -- the one variable part remaining in
%cr0 is for FPU control, but all that is handled later on in
initialization; in particular, configuring %cr0 as if the FPU is
present until proven otherwise is correct and necessary for the probe
to work.

To deal with the XO case sanely, explicitly disable paging in %cr0
before we muck with %cr3, %cr4 or EFER -- those operations are
inherently unsafe with paging enabled.

NOTE: There is still a lot of 386-related junk in head_32.S which we
can and should get rid of, however, this is intended as a minimal fix
whereas the cleanup can be deferred to the next merge window.

Reported-by: Andres Salomon &lt;dilinger@queued.net&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;dsd@laptop.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50FA0661.2060400@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Patch

  5a5a51db78e x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean

... made x86-32 match x86-64 in that we initialize %eflags and %cr4
from scratch.  This broke OLPC XO-1.5, because the XO enters the
kernel with paging enabled, which the kernel doesn't expect.

Since we no longer support 386 (the source of most of the variability
in %cr0 configuration), we can simply match further x86-64 and
initialize %cr0 to a fixed value -- the one variable part remaining in
%cr0 is for FPU control, but all that is handled later on in
initialization; in particular, configuring %cr0 as if the FPU is
present until proven otherwise is correct and necessary for the probe
to work.

To deal with the XO case sanely, explicitly disable paging in %cr0
before we muck with %cr3, %cr4 or EFER -- those operations are
inherently unsafe with paging enabled.

NOTE: There is still a lot of 386-related junk in head_32.S which we
can and should get rid of, however, this is intended as a minimal fix
whereas the cleanup can be deferred to the next merge window.

Reported-by: Andres Salomon &lt;dilinger@queued.net&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;dsd@laptop.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50FA0661.2060400@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T03:56:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T03:56:33+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 BSP hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree enables CPU#0 (the boot processor) to be onlined/offlined on
  x86, just like any other CPU.  Enabled on Intel CPUs for now.

  Allowing this required the identification and fixing of latent CPU#0
  assumptions (such as CPU#0 initializations, etc.) in the x86
  architecture code, plus the identification of barriers to
  BSP-offlining, such as active PIC interrupts which can only be
  serviced on the BSP.

  It's behind a default-off option, and there's a debug option that
  allows the automatic testing of this feature.

  The motivation of this feature is to allow and prepare for true
  CPU-hotplug hardware support: recent changes to MCE support enable us
  to detect a deteriorating but not yet hard-failing L1/L2 cache on a
  CPU that could be soft-unplugged - or a failing L3 cache on a
  multi-socket system.

  Note that true hardware hot-plug is not yet fully enabled by this,
  because that requires a special platform wakeup sequence to be sent to
  the freshly powered up CPU#0.  Future patches for this are planned,
  once such a platform exists.  Chicken and egg"

* 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, topology: Debug CPU0 hotplug
  x86/i387.c: Initialize thread xstate only on CPU0 only once
  x86, hotplug: Handle retrigger irq by the first available CPU
  x86, hotplug: The first online processor saves the MTRR state
  x86, hotplug: During CPU0 online, enable x2apic, set_numa_node.
  x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI
  x86-32, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_32.S
  x86-64, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_64.S
  kernel/cpu.c: Add comment for priority in cpu_hotplug_pm_callback
  x86, hotplug, suspend: Online CPU0 for suspend or hibernate
  x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline
  x86, topology: Don't offline CPU0 if any PIC irq can not be migrated out of it
  x86, Kconfig: Add config switch for CPU0 hotplug
  doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature
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Pull x86 BSP hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree enables CPU#0 (the boot processor) to be onlined/offlined on
  x86, just like any other CPU.  Enabled on Intel CPUs for now.

  Allowing this required the identification and fixing of latent CPU#0
  assumptions (such as CPU#0 initializations, etc.) in the x86
  architecture code, plus the identification of barriers to
  BSP-offlining, such as active PIC interrupts which can only be
  serviced on the BSP.

  It's behind a default-off option, and there's a debug option that
  allows the automatic testing of this feature.

  The motivation of this feature is to allow and prepare for true
  CPU-hotplug hardware support: recent changes to MCE support enable us
  to detect a deteriorating but not yet hard-failing L1/L2 cache on a
  CPU that could be soft-unplugged - or a failing L3 cache on a
  multi-socket system.

  Note that true hardware hot-plug is not yet fully enabled by this,
  because that requires a special platform wakeup sequence to be sent to
  the freshly powered up CPU#0.  Future patches for this are planned,
  once such a platform exists.  Chicken and egg"

* 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, topology: Debug CPU0 hotplug
  x86/i387.c: Initialize thread xstate only on CPU0 only once
  x86, hotplug: Handle retrigger irq by the first available CPU
  x86, hotplug: The first online processor saves the MTRR state
  x86, hotplug: During CPU0 online, enable x2apic, set_numa_node.
  x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI
  x86-32, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_32.S
  x86-64, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_64.S
  kernel/cpu.c: Add comment for priority in cpu_hotplug_pm_callback
  x86, hotplug, suspend: Online CPU0 for suspend or hibernate
  x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline
  x86, topology: Don't offline CPU0 if any PIC irq can not be migrated out of it
  x86, Kconfig: Add config switch for CPU0 hotplug
  doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature
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