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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>compiler.h: introduce TYPEOF_UNQUAL() macro</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T05:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-01-27T16:05:06+00:00</published>
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Define TYPEOF_UNQUAL() to use __typeof_unqual__() as typeof operator when
available, to return unqualified type of the expression.

Current version of sparse doesn't know anything about __typeof_unqual__()
operator.  Avoid the usage of __typeof_unqual__() when sparse checking is
active to prevent sparse errors with unknowing keyword.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250127160709.80604-3-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Define TYPEOF_UNQUAL() to use __typeof_unqual__() as typeof operator when
available, to return unqualified type of the expression.

Current version of sparse doesn't know anything about __typeof_unqual__()
operator.  Avoid the usage of __typeof_unqual__() when sparse checking is
active to prevent sparse errors with unknowing keyword.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250127160709.80604-3-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>unreachable: Unify</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T11:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-28T09:39:01+00:00</published>
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Since barrier_before_unreachable() is empty for !GCC it is trivial to
unify the two definitions. Less is more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128094311.924381359@infradead.org
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Since barrier_before_unreachable() is empty for !GCC it is trivial to
unify the two definitions. Less is more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128094311.924381359@infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T01:17:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nataniel Farzan</name>
<email>natanielfarzan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-05T03:22:32+00:00</published>
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Remove the use of contractions and use proper punctuation in #error
directive messages that discourage the direct inclusion of header files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241105032231.28833-1-natanielfarzan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nataniel Farzan &lt;natanielfarzan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove the use of contractions and use proper punctuation in #error
directive messages that discourage the direct inclusion of header files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241105032231.28833-1-natanielfarzan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nataniel Farzan &lt;natanielfarzan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kasan: Fix Software Tag-Based KASAN with GCC</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T15:04:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-21T12:00:10+00:00</published>
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Per [1], -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress with GCC currently does not disable
instrumentation in functions with __attribute__((no_sanitize_address)).

However, __attribute__((no_sanitize("hwaddress"))) does correctly
disable instrumentation. Use it instead.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117196 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000f362e80620e27859@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZvFGwKfoC4yVjN_X@J2N7QTR9R3
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218854
Reported-by: syzbot+908886656a02769af987@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;pinskia@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 7b861a53e46b ("kasan: Bump required compiler version")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021120013.3209481-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Per [1], -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress with GCC currently does not disable
instrumentation in functions with __attribute__((no_sanitize_address)).

However, __attribute__((no_sanitize("hwaddress"))) does correctly
disable instrumentation. Use it instead.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117196 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000f362e80620e27859@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZvFGwKfoC4yVjN_X@J2N7QTR9R3
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218854
Reported-by: syzbot+908886656a02769af987@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;pinskia@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 7b861a53e46b ("kasan: Bump required compiler version")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021120013.3209481-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init/Kconfig: remove CONFIG_GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND</title>
<updated>2024-07-18T17:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-18T12:06:47+00:00</published>
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Several versions of GCC mis-compile asm goto with outputs. We try to
workaround this, but our workaround is demonstrably incomplete and
liable to result in subtle bugs, especially on arm64 where get_user()
has recently been moved over to using asm goto with outputs.

From discussion(s) with Linus at:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Zpfv2tnlQ-gOLGac@J2N7QTR9R3.cambridge.arm.com/
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/ZpfxLrJAOF2YNqCk@J2N7QTR9R3.cambridge.arm.com/

... it sounds like the best thing to do for now is to remove the
workaround and make CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT depend on working compiler
versions.

The issue was originally reported to GCC by Sean Christopherson:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921

... and Jakub Jelinek fixed this for GCC 14, with the fix backported to
13.3.0, 12.4.0, and 11.5.0.

In the kernel, we tried to workaround broken compilers in commits:

  4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs")
  68fb3ca0e408 ("update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue")

... but the workaround of adding an empty asm("") after the asm volatile
goto(...) demonstrably does not always avoid the problem, as can be seen
in the following test case:

| #define asm_goto_output(x...) \
|         do { asm volatile goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
|
| #define __good_or_bad(__val, __key)                                     \
| do {                                                                    \
|         __label__ __failed;                                             \
|         unsigned long __tmp;                                            \
|         asm_goto_output(                                                \
|         "       cbnz    %[key], %l[__failed]\n"                         \
|         "       mov     %[val], #0x900d\n"                              \
|         : [val] "=r" (__tmp)                                            \
|         : [key] "r" (__key)                                             \
|         :                                                               \
|         : __failed);                                                    \
|         (__val) = __tmp;                                                \
|         break;                                                          \
| __failed:                                                               \
|         (__val) = 0xbad;                                                \
| } while (0)
|
| unsigned long get_val(unsigned long key);
| unsigned long get_val(unsigned long key)
| {
|         unsigned long val = 0xbad;
|
|         __good_or_bad(val, key);
|
|         return val;
| }

GCC 13.2.0 (at -O2) compiles this to:

| 	cbnz    x0, .Lfailed
| 	mov     x0, #0x900d
| .Lfailed:
| 	ret

GCC 14.1.0 (at -O2) compiles this to:

| 	cbnz    x0, .Lfailed
| 	mov     x0, #0x900d
| 	ret
| .Lfailed:
| 	mov     x0, #0xbad
| 	ret

Note that GCC 13.2.0 erroneously omits the assignment to 'val' in the
error path (even though this does not depend on an output of the asm
goto). GCC 14.1.0 correctly retains the assignment.

This problem can be seen within the kernel with the following test case:

| #include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;
| #include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
|
| noinline unsigned long test_unsafe_get_user(unsigned long __user *ptr);
| noinline unsigned long test_unsafe_get_user(unsigned long __user *ptr)
| {
|         unsigned long val;
|
|         unsafe_get_user(val, ptr, Efault);
|         return val;
|
| Efault:
|         val = 0x900d;
|         return val;
| }

GCC 13.2.0 (arm64 defconfig) compiles this to:

|         and     x0, x0, #0xff7fffffffffffff
|         ldtr    x0, [x0]
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         ret

GCC 13.2.0 (x86_64 defconfig + MITIGATION_RETPOLINE=n) compiles this to:

|         endbr64
|         mov    (%rdi),%rax
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         ret

... omitting the assignment to 'val' in the error path, and leaving
garbage in the result register returned by the function (which happens
to contain the faulting address in the generated code).

GCC 14.1.0 (arm64 defconfig) compiles this to:

|         and     x0, x0, #0xff7fffffffffffff
|         ldtr    x0, [x0]
|         ret
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         mov     x0, #0x900d                     // #36877
|         ret

GCC 14.1.0 (x86_64 defconfig + MITIGATION_RETPOLINE=n) compiles this to:

|         endbr64
|         mov    (%rdi),%rax
|         ret
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         mov    $0x900d,%eax
|         ret

... retaining the expected assignment to 'val' in the error path.

We don't have a complete and reasonable workaround. While placing empty
asm("") blocks after each goto label *might* be sufficient, we don't
know for certain, this is tedious and error-prone, and there doesn't
seem to be a neat way to wrap this up (which is especially painful for
cases with multiple goto labels).

Avoid this issue by disabling CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT for
known-broken compiler versions and removing the workaround (along with
the CONFIG_GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND config option).

For the moment I've left the default implementation of asm_goto_output()
unchanged. This should now be redundant since any compiler with the fix
for the clobbering issue whould also have a fix for the (earlier)
volatile issue, but it's far less churny to leave it around, which makes
it easier to backport this patch if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Coplan &lt;alex.coplan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@gcc.gnu.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy &lt;szabolcs.nagy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Several versions of GCC mis-compile asm goto with outputs. We try to
workaround this, but our workaround is demonstrably incomplete and
liable to result in subtle bugs, especially on arm64 where get_user()
has recently been moved over to using asm goto with outputs.

From discussion(s) with Linus at:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Zpfv2tnlQ-gOLGac@J2N7QTR9R3.cambridge.arm.com/
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/ZpfxLrJAOF2YNqCk@J2N7QTR9R3.cambridge.arm.com/

... it sounds like the best thing to do for now is to remove the
workaround and make CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT depend on working compiler
versions.

The issue was originally reported to GCC by Sean Christopherson:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921

... and Jakub Jelinek fixed this for GCC 14, with the fix backported to
13.3.0, 12.4.0, and 11.5.0.

In the kernel, we tried to workaround broken compilers in commits:

  4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs")
  68fb3ca0e408 ("update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue")

... but the workaround of adding an empty asm("") after the asm volatile
goto(...) demonstrably does not always avoid the problem, as can be seen
in the following test case:

| #define asm_goto_output(x...) \
|         do { asm volatile goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
|
| #define __good_or_bad(__val, __key)                                     \
| do {                                                                    \
|         __label__ __failed;                                             \
|         unsigned long __tmp;                                            \
|         asm_goto_output(                                                \
|         "       cbnz    %[key], %l[__failed]\n"                         \
|         "       mov     %[val], #0x900d\n"                              \
|         : [val] "=r" (__tmp)                                            \
|         : [key] "r" (__key)                                             \
|         :                                                               \
|         : __failed);                                                    \
|         (__val) = __tmp;                                                \
|         break;                                                          \
| __failed:                                                               \
|         (__val) = 0xbad;                                                \
| } while (0)
|
| unsigned long get_val(unsigned long key);
| unsigned long get_val(unsigned long key)
| {
|         unsigned long val = 0xbad;
|
|         __good_or_bad(val, key);
|
|         return val;
| }

GCC 13.2.0 (at -O2) compiles this to:

| 	cbnz    x0, .Lfailed
| 	mov     x0, #0x900d
| .Lfailed:
| 	ret

GCC 14.1.0 (at -O2) compiles this to:

| 	cbnz    x0, .Lfailed
| 	mov     x0, #0x900d
| 	ret
| .Lfailed:
| 	mov     x0, #0xbad
| 	ret

Note that GCC 13.2.0 erroneously omits the assignment to 'val' in the
error path (even though this does not depend on an output of the asm
goto). GCC 14.1.0 correctly retains the assignment.

This problem can be seen within the kernel with the following test case:

| #include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;
| #include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
|
| noinline unsigned long test_unsafe_get_user(unsigned long __user *ptr);
| noinline unsigned long test_unsafe_get_user(unsigned long __user *ptr)
| {
|         unsigned long val;
|
|         unsafe_get_user(val, ptr, Efault);
|         return val;
|
| Efault:
|         val = 0x900d;
|         return val;
| }

GCC 13.2.0 (arm64 defconfig) compiles this to:

|         and     x0, x0, #0xff7fffffffffffff
|         ldtr    x0, [x0]
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         ret

GCC 13.2.0 (x86_64 defconfig + MITIGATION_RETPOLINE=n) compiles this to:

|         endbr64
|         mov    (%rdi),%rax
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         ret

... omitting the assignment to 'val' in the error path, and leaving
garbage in the result register returned by the function (which happens
to contain the faulting address in the generated code).

GCC 14.1.0 (arm64 defconfig) compiles this to:

|         and     x0, x0, #0xff7fffffffffffff
|         ldtr    x0, [x0]
|         ret
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         mov     x0, #0x900d                     // #36877
|         ret

GCC 14.1.0 (x86_64 defconfig + MITIGATION_RETPOLINE=n) compiles this to:

|         endbr64
|         mov    (%rdi),%rax
|         ret
| .Lextable_fixup:
|         mov    $0x900d,%eax
|         ret

... retaining the expected assignment to 'val' in the error path.

We don't have a complete and reasonable workaround. While placing empty
asm("") blocks after each goto label *might* be sufficient, we don't
know for certain, this is tedious and error-prone, and there doesn't
seem to be a neat way to wrap this up (which is especially painful for
cases with multiple goto labels).

Avoid this issue by disabling CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT for
known-broken compiler versions and removing the workaround (along with
the CONFIG_GCC_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT_WORKAROUND config option).

For the moment I've left the default implementation of asm_goto_output()
unchanged. This should now be redundant since any compiler with the fix
for the clobbering issue whould also have a fix for the (earlier)
volatile issue, but it's far less churny to leave it around, which makes
it easier to backport this patch if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Coplan &lt;alex.coplan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@gcc.gnu.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy &lt;szabolcs.nagy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</published>
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
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<entry>
<title>update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue</title>
<updated>2024-02-15T19:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-15T19:14:33+00:00</published>
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In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T09:49:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T09:48:28+00:00</published>
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Merge in pending alternatives patching infrastructure changes, before
applying more patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Merge in pending alternatives patching infrastructure changes, before
applying more patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs</title>
<updated>2024-02-09T23:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T20:39:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4356e9f841f7fbb945521cef3577ba394c65f3fc'/>
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We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETPOLINE            =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE</title>
<updated>2024-01-10T09:52:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Breno Leitao</name>
<email>leitao@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-21T16:07:32+00:00</published>
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Step 5/10 of the namespace unification of CPU mitigations related Kconfig options.

[ mingo: Converted a few more uses in comments/messages as well. ]

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas &lt;amiculas@cisco.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121160740.1249350-6-leitao@debian.org
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Step 5/10 of the namespace unification of CPU mitigations related Kconfig options.

[ mingo: Converted a few more uses in comments/messages as well. ]

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas &lt;amiculas@cisco.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121160740.1249350-6-leitao@debian.org
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