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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c, branch v6.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Reapply "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"</title>
<updated>2025-06-07T12:23:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-05T15:09:35+00:00</published>
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Revert commit 70523f335734 ("Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate
mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"") to reapply the changes from commit
96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
reverted by it.

Previously, these changes caused idle power to rise on systems booting
with "nosmt" in the kernel command line because they effectively caused
"dead" SMT siblings to remain in idle state C1 after executing the HLT
instruction, which prevented the processor from reaching package idle
states deeper than PC2 going forward.

Now, the "dead" SMT siblings are rescanned after initializing a proper
cpuidle driver for the processor (either intel_idle or ACPI idle), at
which point they are able to enter a sufficiently deep idle state
in native_play_dead() via cpuidle, so the code changes in question can
be reapplied.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7813065.EvYhyI6sBW@rjwysocki.net
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Revert commit 70523f335734 ("Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate
mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"") to reapply the changes from commit
96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
reverted by it.

Previously, these changes caused idle power to rise on systems booting
with "nosmt" in the kernel command line because they effectively caused
"dead" SMT siblings to remain in idle state C1 after executing the HLT
instruction, which prevented the processor from reaching package idle
states deeper than PC2 going forward.

Now, the "dead" SMT siblings are rescanned after initializing a proper
cpuidle driver for the processor (either intel_idle or ACPI idle), at
which point they are able to enter a sufficiently deep idle state
in native_play_dead() via cpuidle, so the code changes in question can
be reapplied.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7813065.EvYhyI6sBW@rjwysocki.net
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20250602' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux</title>
<updated>2025-06-03T15:39:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-03T15:39:20+00:00</published>
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Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Support for Virtual Trust Level (VTL) on arm64 (Roman Kisel)

 - Fixes for Hyper-V UIO driver (Long Li)

 - Fixes for Hyper-V PCI driver (Michael Kelley)

 - Select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests (Michael Kelley)

 - Documentation updates for Hyper-V VMBus (Michael Kelley)

 - Enhance logging for hv_kvp_daemon (Shradha Gupta)

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20250602' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (23 commits)
  Drivers: hv: Always select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add comments about races with "channels" sysfs dir
  Documentation: hyperv: Update VMBus doc with new features and info
  PCI: hv: Remove unnecessary flex array in struct pci_packet
  Drivers: hv: Remove hv_alloc/free_* helpers
  Drivers: hv: Use kzalloc for panic page allocation
  uio_hv_generic: Align ring size to system page
  uio_hv_generic: Use correct size for interrupt and monitor pages
  Drivers: hv: Allocate interrupt and monitor pages aligned to system page boundary
  arch/x86: Provide the CPU number in the wakeup AP callback
  x86/hyperv: Fix APIC ID and VP index confusion in hv_snp_boot_ap()
  PCI: hv: Get vPCI MSI IRQ domain from DeviceTree
  ACPI: irq: Introduce acpi_get_gsi_dispatcher()
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce hv_get_vmbus_root_device()
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Get the IRQ number from DeviceTree
  dt-bindings: microsoft,vmbus: Add interrupt and DMA coherence properties
  arm64, x86: hyperv: Report the VTL the system boots in
  arm64: hyperv: Initialize the Virtual Trust Level field
  Drivers: hv: Provide arch-neutral implementation of get_vtl()
  Drivers: hv: Enable VTL mode for arm64
  ...
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Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Support for Virtual Trust Level (VTL) on arm64 (Roman Kisel)

 - Fixes for Hyper-V UIO driver (Long Li)

 - Fixes for Hyper-V PCI driver (Michael Kelley)

 - Select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests (Michael Kelley)

 - Documentation updates for Hyper-V VMBus (Michael Kelley)

 - Enhance logging for hv_kvp_daemon (Shradha Gupta)

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20250602' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (23 commits)
  Drivers: hv: Always select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add comments about races with "channels" sysfs dir
  Documentation: hyperv: Update VMBus doc with new features and info
  PCI: hv: Remove unnecessary flex array in struct pci_packet
  Drivers: hv: Remove hv_alloc/free_* helpers
  Drivers: hv: Use kzalloc for panic page allocation
  uio_hv_generic: Align ring size to system page
  uio_hv_generic: Use correct size for interrupt and monitor pages
  Drivers: hv: Allocate interrupt and monitor pages aligned to system page boundary
  arch/x86: Provide the CPU number in the wakeup AP callback
  x86/hyperv: Fix APIC ID and VP index confusion in hv_snp_boot_ap()
  PCI: hv: Get vPCI MSI IRQ domain from DeviceTree
  ACPI: irq: Introduce acpi_get_gsi_dispatcher()
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce hv_get_vmbus_root_device()
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Get the IRQ number from DeviceTree
  dt-bindings: microsoft,vmbus: Add interrupt and DMA coherence properties
  arm64, x86: hyperv: Report the VTL the system boots in
  arm64: hyperv: Initialize the Virtual Trust Level field
  Drivers: hv: Provide arch-neutral implementation of get_vtl()
  Drivers: hv: Enable VTL mode for arm64
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-cpuidle'</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T18:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T18:21:36+00:00</published>
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Fix an issue in the PSCI cpuidle driver introduced recently and a nasty
x86 power regression introduced in 6.15:

 - Prevent freeing an uninitialized pointer in error path of
   dt_idle_state_present() in the PSCI cpuidle driver (Dan Carpenter).

 - Revert an x86 commit that went into 6.15 and caused idle power,
   including power in suspend-to-idle, to rise rather dramatically on
   systems booting with "nosmt" in the kernel command line (Rafael Wysocki).

* pm-cpuidle:
  Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"
  cpuidle: psci: Fix uninitialized variable in dt_idle_state_present()
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Fix an issue in the PSCI cpuidle driver introduced recently and a nasty
x86 power regression introduced in 6.15:

 - Prevent freeing an uninitialized pointer in error path of
   dt_idle_state_present() in the PSCI cpuidle driver (Dan Carpenter).

 - Revert an x86 commit that went into 6.15 and caused idle power,
   including power in suspend-to-idle, to rise rather dramatically on
   systems booting with "nosmt" in the kernel command line (Rafael Wysocki).

* pm-cpuidle:
  Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"
  cpuidle: psci: Fix uninitialized variable in dt_idle_state_present()
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<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T15:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-29T13:40:43+00:00</published>
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Revert commit 96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
because it introduced a significant power regression on systems that
start with "nosmt" in the kernel command line.

Namely, on such systems, SMT siblings permanently go offline early,
when cpuidle has not been initialized yet, so after the above commit,
hlt_play_dead() is called for them.  Later on, when the processor
attempts to enter a deep package C-state, including PC10 which is
requisite for reaching minimum power in suspend-to-idle, it is not
able to do that because of the SMT siblings staying in C1 (which
they have been put into by HLT).

As a result, the idle power (including power in suspend-to-idle)
rises quite dramatically on those systems with all of the possible
consequences, which (needless to say) may not be expected by their
users.

This issue is hard to debug and potentially dangerous, so it needs to
be addressed as soon as possible in a way that will work for 6.15.y,
hence the revert.

Of course, after this revert, the issue that commit 96040f7273e2
attempted to address will be back and it will need to be fixed again
later.

Fixes: 96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
Reported-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: 6.15+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.15+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12674167.O9o76ZdvQC@rjwysocki.net
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Revert commit 96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
because it introduced a significant power regression on systems that
start with "nosmt" in the kernel command line.

Namely, on such systems, SMT siblings permanently go offline early,
when cpuidle has not been initialized yet, so after the above commit,
hlt_play_dead() is called for them.  Later on, when the processor
attempts to enter a deep package C-state, including PC10 which is
requisite for reaching minimum power in suspend-to-idle, it is not
able to do that because of the SMT siblings staying in C1 (which
they have been put into by HLT).

As a result, the idle power (including power in suspend-to-idle)
rises quite dramatically on those systems with all of the possible
consequences, which (needless to say) may not be expected by their
users.

This issue is hard to debug and potentially dangerous, so it needs to
be addressed as soon as possible in a way that will work for 6.15.y,
hence the revert.

Of course, after this revert, the issue that commit 96040f7273e2
attempted to address will be back and it will need to be fixed again
later.

Fixes: 96040f7273e2 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
Reported-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: 6.15+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.15+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12674167.O9o76ZdvQC@rjwysocki.net
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T23:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T23:04:17+00:00</published>
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Boot code changes:

   - A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a
     better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup
     code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel.

     Motivation &amp; background:

  	| Since commit
  	|
  	|    c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
  	|
  	| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
  	| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
  	| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
  	| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
  	| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
  	| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
  	| without crashing.
  	|
  	| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
  	| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
  	| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
  	| annotations or helpers to access global objects.

     This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86
     boot code reorganization.

  Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:

   - Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)

   - Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)

  CPU features enumeration updates:

   - Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S.
     Darwish)

   - Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish,
     Thomas Gleixner)

   - Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)

  Memory management changes:

   - Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav
     Petkov)

   - Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)

   - Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Stop prefetching current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz
     Guzik)

   - Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)

   - Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)

  FPU support and vector computing:

   - Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)

   - Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)

   - Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)

   - Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix
     CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook)

   - Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg
     Nesterov)

   - Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean
     Christopherson)

  Microcode loader changes:

   - Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)

   - AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary
     (Annie Li)

   - AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris
     Ostrovsky)

  Code patching (alternatives) changes:

   - Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo
     Molnar)

   - Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume
     smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov)

   - Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)

  Debugging support:

   - Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs
     (David Woodhouse)

   - Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen
     Ghannam)

   - Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)

   - Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

  CPU bugs and bug mitigations:

   - Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)

   - Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)

   - Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
     (David Kaplan)

   - Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)

  MSR API:

   - Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)

   - In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)

  PKEYS:

   - Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)

  NMI handling code:

   - Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)

   - Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)

  Paravirt guests interface:

   - Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)

  SEV support:

   - Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)

  x86 platform changes:

   - Introduce the &lt;asm/amd/&gt; header namespace (Ingo Molnar)

   - i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to
     &lt;asm/amd/fch.h&gt; (Mario Limonciello)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy
     Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav
     Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David
     Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf,
     Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan
     Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank
     Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits)
  x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel
  x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation
  x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
  x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of &lt;asm/asm.h&gt;
  x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only
  x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional
  x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
  x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout
  x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge
  x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()
  x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2()
  x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()
  x86/cpuid: Set &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; as the main CPUID header
  x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into &lt;cpuid/api.h&gt;
  x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper
  x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods
  x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too
  x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables
  ...
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Boot code changes:

   - A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a
     better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup
     code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel.

     Motivation &amp; background:

  	| Since commit
  	|
  	|    c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
  	|
  	| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
  	| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
  	| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
  	| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
  	| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
  	| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
  	| without crashing.
  	|
  	| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
  	| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
  	| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
  	| annotations or helpers to access global objects.

     This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86
     boot code reorganization.

  Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:

   - Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)

   - Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)

  CPU features enumeration updates:

   - Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S.
     Darwish)

   - Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish,
     Thomas Gleixner)

   - Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)

  Memory management changes:

   - Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav
     Petkov)

   - Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)

   - Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Stop prefetching current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz
     Guzik)

   - Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)

   - Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)

  FPU support and vector computing:

   - Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)

   - Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)

   - Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)

   - Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix
     CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook)

   - Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg
     Nesterov)

   - Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean
     Christopherson)

  Microcode loader changes:

   - Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)

   - AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary
     (Annie Li)

   - AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris
     Ostrovsky)

  Code patching (alternatives) changes:

   - Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo
     Molnar)

   - Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume
     smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov)

   - Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)

  Debugging support:

   - Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs
     (David Woodhouse)

   - Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen
     Ghannam)

   - Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)

   - Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

  CPU bugs and bug mitigations:

   - Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)

   - Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)

   - Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
     (David Kaplan)

   - Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)

  MSR API:

   - Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)

   - In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)

  PKEYS:

   - Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)

  NMI handling code:

   - Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)

   - Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)

  Paravirt guests interface:

   - Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)

  SEV support:

   - Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)

  x86 platform changes:

   - Introduce the &lt;asm/amd/&gt; header namespace (Ingo Molnar)

   - i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to
     &lt;asm/amd/fch.h&gt; (Mario Limonciello)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy
     Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav
     Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David
     Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf,
     Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan
     Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank
     Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits)
  x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel
  x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation
  x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
  x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of &lt;asm/asm.h&gt;
  x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only
  x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional
  x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
  x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout
  x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge
  x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()
  x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2()
  x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()
  x86/cpuid: Set &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; as the main CPUID header
  x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into &lt;cpuid/api.h&gt;
  x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper
  x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods
  x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too
  x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Fix irq_fpu_usable() to return false during CPU onlining</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T02:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-18T19:32:12+00:00</published>
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irq_fpu_usable() incorrectly returned true before the FPU is
initialized.  The x86 CPU onlining code can call sha256() to checksum
AMD microcode images, before the FPU is initialized.  Since sha256()
recently gained a kernel-mode FPU optimized code path, a crash occurred
in kernel_fpu_begin_mask() during hotplug CPU onlining.

(The crash did not occur during boot-time CPU onlining, since the
optimized sha256() code is not enabled until subsys_initcalls run.)

Fix this by making irq_fpu_usable() return false before fpu__init_cpu()
has run.  To do this without adding any additional overhead to
irq_fpu_usable(), replace the existing per-CPU bool in_kernel_fpu with
kernel_fpu_allowed which tracks both initialization and usage rather
than just usage.  The initial state is false; FPU initialization sets it
to true; kernel-mode FPU sections toggle it to false and then back to
true; and CPU offlining restores it to the initial state of false.

Fixes: 11d7956d526f ("crypto: x86/sha256 - implement library instead of shash")
Reported-by: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.Jain3@amd.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516112217.GBaCcf6Yoc6LkIIryP@fat_crate.local
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.Jain3@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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irq_fpu_usable() incorrectly returned true before the FPU is
initialized.  The x86 CPU onlining code can call sha256() to checksum
AMD microcode images, before the FPU is initialized.  Since sha256()
recently gained a kernel-mode FPU optimized code path, a crash occurred
in kernel_fpu_begin_mask() during hotplug CPU onlining.

(The crash did not occur during boot-time CPU onlining, since the
optimized sha256() code is not enabled until subsys_initcalls run.)

Fix this by making irq_fpu_usable() return false before fpu__init_cpu()
has run.  To do this without adding any additional overhead to
irq_fpu_usable(), replace the existing per-CPU bool in_kernel_fpu with
kernel_fpu_allowed which tracks both initialization and usage rather
than just usage.  The initial state is false; FPU initialization sets it
to true; kernel-mode FPU sections toggle it to false and then back to
true; and CPU offlining restores it to the initial state of false.

Fixes: 11d7956d526f ("crypto: x86/sha256 - implement library instead of shash")
Reported-by: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.Jain3@amd.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516112217.GBaCcf6Yoc6LkIIryP@fat_crate.local
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.Jain3@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/x86: Provide the CPU number in the wakeup AP callback</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T16:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Kisel</name>
<email>romank@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T18:22:26+00:00</published>
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When starting APs, confidential guests and paravisor guests
need to know the CPU number, and the pattern of using the linear
search has emerged in several places. With N processors that leads
to the O(N^2) time complexity.

Provide the CPU number in the AP wake up callback so that one can
get the CPU number in constant time.

Suggested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507182227.7421-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250507182227.7421-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
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<pre>
When starting APs, confidential guests and paravisor guests
need to know the CPU number, and the pattern of using the linear
search has emerged in several places. With N processors that leads
to the O(N^2) time complexity.

Provide the CPU number in the AP wake up callback so that one can
get the CPU number in constant time.

Suggested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel &lt;romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507182227.7421-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250507182227.7421-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpuid: Set &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; as the main CPUID header</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T16:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwi@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T15:02:31+00:00</published>
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The main CPUID header &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; was originally a storefront for the
headers:

    &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt;
    &lt;asm/cpuid/leaf_0x2_api.h&gt;

Now that the latter CPUID(0x2) header has been merged into the former,
there is no practical difference between &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; and
&lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt;.

Migrate all users to the &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; header, in preparation of
the removal of &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt;.

Don't remove &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; just yet, in case some new code in -next
started using it.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508150240.172915-3-darwi@linutronix.de
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The main CPUID header &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; was originally a storefront for the
headers:

    &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt;
    &lt;asm/cpuid/leaf_0x2_api.h&gt;

Now that the latter CPUID(0x2) header has been merged into the former,
there is no practical difference between &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; and
&lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt;.

Migrate all users to the &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; header, in preparation of
the removal of &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt;.

Don't remove &lt;asm/cpuid.h&gt; just yet, in case some new code in -next
started using it.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508150240.172915-3-darwi@linutronix.de
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/smpboot: Fix INIT delay assignment for extended Intel Families</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T10:19:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sohil Mehta</name>
<email>sohil.mehta@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T18:41:28+00:00</published>
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Some old crusty CPUs need an extra delay that slows down booting. See
the comment above 'init_udelay' for details. Newer CPUs don't need the
delay.

Right now, for Intel, Family 6 and only Family 6 skips the delay. That
leaves out both the Family 15 (Pentium 4s) and brand new Family 18/19
models.

The omission of Family 15 (Pentium 4s) seems like an oversight and 18/19
do not need the delay.

Skip the delay on all Intel processors Family 6 and beyond.

Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-11-sohil.mehta@intel.com
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Some old crusty CPUs need an extra delay that slows down booting. See
the comment above 'init_udelay' for details. Newer CPUs don't need the
delay.

Right now, for Intel, Family 6 and only Family 6 skips the delay. That
leaves out both the Family 15 (Pentium 4s) and brand new Family 18/19
models.

The omission of Family 15 (Pentium 4s) seems like an oversight and 18/19
do not need the delay.

Skip the delay on all Intel processors Family 6 and beyond.

Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-11-sohil.mehta@intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/smpboot: Remove confusing quirk usage in INIT delay</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T10:19:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sohil Mehta</name>
<email>sohil.mehta@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T18:41:27+00:00</published>
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Very old multiprocessor systems required a 10 msec delay between
asserting and de-asserting INIT but modern processors do not require
this delay.

Over time the usage of the "quirk" wording while setting the INIT delay
has become misleading. The code comments suggest that modern processors
need to be quirked, which clears the default init_udelay of 10 msec,
while legacy processors don't need the quirk and continue to use the
default init_udelay.

With a lot more modern processors, the wording should be inverted if at
all needed. Instead, simplify the comments and the code by getting rid
of "quirk" usage altogether and clarifying the following:

  - Old legacy processors -&gt; Set the "legacy" 10 msec delay
  - Modern processors     -&gt; Do not set any delay

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-10-sohil.mehta@intel.com
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<pre>
Very old multiprocessor systems required a 10 msec delay between
asserting and de-asserting INIT but modern processors do not require
this delay.

Over time the usage of the "quirk" wording while setting the INIT delay
has become misleading. The code comments suggest that modern processors
need to be quirked, which clears the default init_udelay of 10 msec,
while legacy processors don't need the quirk and continue to use the
default init_udelay.

With a lot more modern processors, the wording should be inverted if at
all needed. Instead, simplify the comments and the code by getting rid
of "quirk" usage altogether and clarifying the following:

  - Old legacy processors -&gt; Set the "legacy" 10 msec delay
  - Modern processors     -&gt; Do not set any delay

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta &lt;sohil.mehta@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219184133.816753-10-sohil.mehta@intel.com
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