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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2022-12-22T03:03:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-22T03:03:42+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "I missed this minor hardening of the kernel in the first pull.

   - Make monitor structures read only"

* tag 'trace-v6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  rv/monitors: Move monitor structure in rodata
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "I missed this minor hardening of the kernel in the first pull.

   - Make monitor structures read only"

* tag 'trace-v6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  rv/monitors: Move monitor structure in rodata
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-probes-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2022-12-22T02:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-22T02:57:24+00:00</published>
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Pull trace probes updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - New "symstr" type for dynamic events that writes the name of the
   function+offset into the ring buffer and not just the address

 - Prevent kernel symbol processing on addresses in user space probes
   (uprobes).

 - And minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-probes-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/probes: Reject symbol/symstr type for uprobe
  tracing/probes: Add symstr type for dynamic events
  kprobes: kretprobe events missing on 2-core KVM guest
  kprobes: Fix check for probe enabled in kill_kprobe()
  test_kprobes: Fix implicit declaration error of test_kprobes
  tracing: Fix race where eprobes can be called before the event
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Pull trace probes updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - New "symstr" type for dynamic events that writes the name of the
   function+offset into the ring buffer and not just the address

 - Prevent kernel symbol processing on addresses in user space probes
   (uprobes).

 - And minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-probes-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/probes: Reject symbol/symstr type for uprobe
  tracing/probes: Add symstr type for dynamic events
  kprobes: kretprobe events missing on 2-core KVM guest
  kprobes: Fix check for probe enabled in kill_kprobe()
  test_kprobes: Fix implicit declaration error of test_kprobes
  tracing: Fix race where eprobes can be called before the event
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<entry>
<title>rv/monitors: Move monitor structure in rodata</title>
<updated>2022-12-20T16:46:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alessandro Carminati</name>
<email>acarmina@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-22T17:36:48+00:00</published>
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It makes sense to move the important monitor structure into rodata to
prevent accidental structure modification.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221122173648.4732-1-acarmina@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati &lt;acarmina@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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It makes sense to move the important monitor structure into rodata to
prevent accidental structure modification.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221122173648.4732-1-acarmina@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati &lt;acarmina@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-19T13:13:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-19T13:13:33+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add powerpc qspinlock implementation optimised for large system
   scalability and paravirt. See the merge message for more details

 - Enable objtool to be built on powerpc to generate mcount locations

 - Use a temporary mm for code patching with the Radix MMU, so the
   writable mapping is restricted to the patching CPU

 - Add an option to build the 64-bit big-endian kernel with the ELFv2
   ABI

 - Sanitise user registers on interrupt entry on 64-bit Book3S

 - Many other small features and fixes

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Angel Iglesias, Benjamin Gray, Bjorn
Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Lifu, Christoph Hellwig, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Colin Ian King, Deming Wang,
Disha Goel, Dmitry Torokhov, Finn Thain, Geert Uytterhoeven, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Haowen Bai, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kajol
Jain, Laurent Dufour, Li zeming, Miaoqian Lin, Michael Jeanson, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin,
Pali Rohár, Randy Dunlap, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Shaomin Deng, Stephen Kitt, Stephen Rothwell, Thomas
Weißschuh, Tiezhu Yang, Uwe Kleine-König, Xie Shaowen, Xiu Jianfeng,
XueBing Chen, Yang Yingliang, Zhang Jiaming, ruanjinjie, Jessica Yu,
and Wolfram Sang.

* tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (181 commits)
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix oops with DEBUG_VM enabled
  powerpc/qspinlock: Fix 32-bit build
  powerpc/prom: Fix 32-bit build
  powerpc/rtas: mandate RTAS syscall filtering
  powerpc/rtas: define pr_fmt and convert printk call sites
  powerpc/rtas: clean up includes
  powerpc/rtas: clean up rtas_error_log_max initialization
  powerpc/pseries/eeh: use correct API for error log size
  powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
  powerpc/rtas: avoid device tree lookups in rtas_os_term()
  powerpc/rtasd: use correct OF API for event scan rate
  powerpc/rtas: document rtas_call()
  powerpc/pseries: unregister VPA when hot unplugging a CPU
  powerpc/pseries: reset the RCU watchdogs after a LPM
  powerpc: Take in account addition CPU node when building kexec FDT
  powerpc: export the CPU node count
  powerpc/cpuidle: Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING for snooze state
  powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix pca954x i2c-mux node names
  cxl: Remove unnecessary cxl_pci_window_alignment()
  selftests/powerpc: Fix resource leaks
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add powerpc qspinlock implementation optimised for large system
   scalability and paravirt. See the merge message for more details

 - Enable objtool to be built on powerpc to generate mcount locations

 - Use a temporary mm for code patching with the Radix MMU, so the
   writable mapping is restricted to the patching CPU

 - Add an option to build the 64-bit big-endian kernel with the ELFv2
   ABI

 - Sanitise user registers on interrupt entry on 64-bit Book3S

 - Many other small features and fixes

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Angel Iglesias, Benjamin Gray, Bjorn
Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Lifu, Christoph Hellwig, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Colin Ian King, Deming Wang,
Disha Goel, Dmitry Torokhov, Finn Thain, Geert Uytterhoeven, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Haowen Bai, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kajol
Jain, Laurent Dufour, Li zeming, Miaoqian Lin, Michael Jeanson, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin,
Pali Rohár, Randy Dunlap, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Shaomin Deng, Stephen Kitt, Stephen Rothwell, Thomas
Weißschuh, Tiezhu Yang, Uwe Kleine-König, Xie Shaowen, Xiu Jianfeng,
XueBing Chen, Yang Yingliang, Zhang Jiaming, ruanjinjie, Jessica Yu,
and Wolfram Sang.

* tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (181 commits)
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix oops with DEBUG_VM enabled
  powerpc/qspinlock: Fix 32-bit build
  powerpc/prom: Fix 32-bit build
  powerpc/rtas: mandate RTAS syscall filtering
  powerpc/rtas: define pr_fmt and convert printk call sites
  powerpc/rtas: clean up includes
  powerpc/rtas: clean up rtas_error_log_max initialization
  powerpc/pseries/eeh: use correct API for error log size
  powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
  powerpc/rtas: avoid device tree lookups in rtas_os_term()
  powerpc/rtasd: use correct OF API for event scan rate
  powerpc/rtas: document rtas_call()
  powerpc/pseries: unregister VPA when hot unplugging a CPU
  powerpc/pseries: reset the RCU watchdogs after a LPM
  powerpc: Take in account addition CPU node when building kexec FDT
  powerpc: export the CPU node count
  powerpc/cpuidle: Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING for snooze state
  powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix pca954x i2c-mux node names
  cxl: Remove unnecessary cxl_pci_window_alignment()
  selftests/powerpc: Fix resource leaks
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2022-12-16T02:01:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T02:01:16+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add options to the osnoise tracer:
      - 'panic_on_stop' option that panics the kernel if osnoise is
        greater than some user defined threshold.
      - 'preempt' option, to test noise while preemption is disabled
      - 'irq' option, to test noise when interrupts are disabled

 - Add .percent and .graph suffix to histograms to give different
   outputs

 - Add nohitcount to disable showing hitcount in histogram output

 - Add new __cpumask() to trace event fields to annotate that a unsigned
   long array is a cpumask to user space and should be treated as one.

 - Add trace_trigger kernel command line parameter to enable trace event
   triggers at boot up. Useful to trace stack traces, disable tracing
   and take snapshots.

 - Fix x86/kmmio mmio tracer to work with the updates to lockdep

 - Unify the panic and die notifiers

 - Add back ftrace_expect reference that is used to extract more
   information in the ftrace_bug() code.

 - Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in the tracing error log.

 - Updated MAINTAINERS file to add kernel tracing mailing list and
   patchwork info

 - Use IDA to keep track of event type numbers.

 - And minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix cpumask() example typo
  tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers
  ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels
  tracing: Do not synchronize freeing of trigger filter on boot up
  tracing: Remove pointer (asterisk) and brackets from cpumask_t field
  tracing: Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in error_log
  x86/mm/kmmio: Remove redundant preempt_disable()
  tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line
  Documentation/osnoise: Add osnoise/options documentation
  tracing/osnoise: Add preempt and/or irq disabled options
  tracing/osnoise: Add PANIC_ON_STOP option
  Documentation/osnoise: Escape underscore of NO_ prefix
  tracing: Fix some checker warnings
  tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_options static
  tracing: remove unnecessary trace_trigger ifdef
  ring-buffer: Handle resize in early boot up
  tracing/hist: Fix issue of losting command info in error_log
  tracing: Fix issue of missing one synthetic field
  tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'
  tracing/hist: Fix wrong return value in parse_action_params()
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add options to the osnoise tracer:
      - 'panic_on_stop' option that panics the kernel if osnoise is
        greater than some user defined threshold.
      - 'preempt' option, to test noise while preemption is disabled
      - 'irq' option, to test noise when interrupts are disabled

 - Add .percent and .graph suffix to histograms to give different
   outputs

 - Add nohitcount to disable showing hitcount in histogram output

 - Add new __cpumask() to trace event fields to annotate that a unsigned
   long array is a cpumask to user space and should be treated as one.

 - Add trace_trigger kernel command line parameter to enable trace event
   triggers at boot up. Useful to trace stack traces, disable tracing
   and take snapshots.

 - Fix x86/kmmio mmio tracer to work with the updates to lockdep

 - Unify the panic and die notifiers

 - Add back ftrace_expect reference that is used to extract more
   information in the ftrace_bug() code.

 - Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in the tracing error log.

 - Updated MAINTAINERS file to add kernel tracing mailing list and
   patchwork info

 - Use IDA to keep track of event type numbers.

 - And minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix cpumask() example typo
  tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers
  ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels
  tracing: Do not synchronize freeing of trigger filter on boot up
  tracing: Remove pointer (asterisk) and brackets from cpumask_t field
  tracing: Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in error_log
  x86/mm/kmmio: Remove redundant preempt_disable()
  tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line
  Documentation/osnoise: Add osnoise/options documentation
  tracing/osnoise: Add preempt and/or irq disabled options
  tracing/osnoise: Add PANIC_ON_STOP option
  Documentation/osnoise: Escape underscore of NO_ prefix
  tracing: Fix some checker warnings
  tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_options static
  tracing: remove unnecessary trace_trigger ifdef
  ring-buffer: Handle resize in early boot up
  tracing/hist: Fix issue of losting command info in error_log
  tracing: Fix issue of missing one synthetic field
  tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'
  tracing/hist: Fix wrong return value in parse_action_params()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing/probes: Reject symbol/symstr type for uprobe</title>
<updated>2022-12-15T00:00:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T04:47:56+00:00</published>
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Since uprobe's argument must contain the user-space data, that
should not be converted to kernel symbols. Reject if user
specifies these types on uprobe events. e.g.

 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symbol' &gt;&gt; uprobe_events
 sh: write error: Invalid argument
 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symstr' &gt;&gt; uprobe_events
 sh: write error: Invalid argument
 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat error_log
 [ 1783.134883] trace_uprobe: error: Unknown type is specified
   Command: p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symbol
                             ^
 [ 1792.201120] trace_uprobe: error: Unknown type is specified
   Command: p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symstr
                             ^
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166679931679.1528100.15540755370726009882.stgit@devnote3/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Since uprobe's argument must contain the user-space data, that
should not be converted to kernel symbols. Reject if user
specifies these types on uprobe events. e.g.

 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symbol' &gt;&gt; uprobe_events
 sh: write error: Invalid argument
 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symstr' &gt;&gt; uprobe_events
 sh: write error: Invalid argument
 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat error_log
 [ 1783.134883] trace_uprobe: error: Unknown type is specified
   Command: p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symbol
                             ^
 [ 1792.201120] trace_uprobe: error: Unknown type is specified
   Command: p /bin/sh:10 %ax:symstr
                             ^
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166679931679.1528100.15540755370726009882.stgit@devnote3/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/probes: Add symstr type for dynamic events</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T23:48:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T04:47:56+00:00</published>
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Add 'symstr' type for storing the kernel symbol as a string data
instead of the symbol address. This allows us to filter the
events by wildcard symbol name.

e.g.
  # echo 'e:wqfunc workqueue.workqueue_execute_start symname=$function:symstr' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events
  # cat events/eprobes/wqfunc/format
  name: wqfunc
  ID: 2110
  format:
  	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;	signed:0;
  	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;	signed:0;
  	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;	signed:0;
  	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;	signed:1;

  	field:__data_loc char[] symname;	offset:8;	size:4;	signed:1;

  print fmt: " symname=\"%s\"", __get_str(symname)

Note that there is already 'symbol' type which just change the
print format (so it still stores the symbol address in the tracing
ring buffer.) On the other hand, 'symstr' type stores the actual
"symbol+offset/size" data as a string.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166679930847.1528100.4124308529180235965.stgit@devnote3/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Add 'symstr' type for storing the kernel symbol as a string data
instead of the symbol address. This allows us to filter the
events by wildcard symbol name.

e.g.
  # echo 'e:wqfunc workqueue.workqueue_execute_start symname=$function:symstr' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events
  # cat events/eprobes/wqfunc/format
  name: wqfunc
  ID: 2110
  format:
  	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;	signed:0;
  	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;	signed:0;
  	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;	signed:0;
  	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;	signed:1;

  	field:__data_loc char[] symname;	offset:8;	size:4;	signed:1;

  print fmt: " symname=\"%s\"", __get_str(symname)

Note that there is already 'symbol' type which just change the
print format (so it still stores the symbol address in the tracing
ring buffer.) On the other hand, 'symstr' type stores the actual
"symbol+offset/size" data as a string.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166679930847.1528100.4124308529180235965.stgit@devnote3/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T16:17:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guilherme G. Piccoli</name>
<email>gpiccoli@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-19T22:17:26+00:00</published>
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Currently the tracing dump_on_oops feature is implemented through
separate notifiers, one for die/oops and the other for panic;
given they have the same functionality, let's unify them.

Also improve the function comment and change the priority of the
notifier to make it execute earlier, avoiding showing useless trace
data (like the callback names for the other notifiers); finally,
we also removed an unnecessary header inclusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-7-gpiccoli@igalia.com

Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently the tracing dump_on_oops feature is implemented through
separate notifiers, one for die/oops and the other for panic;
given they have the same functionality, let's unify them.

Also improve the function comment and change the priority of the
notifier to make it execute earlier, avoiding showing useless trace
data (like the callback names for the other notifiers); finally,
we also removed an unnecessary header inclusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-7-gpiccoli@igalia.com

Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T16:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guilherme G. Piccoli</name>
<email>gpiccoli@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T20:48:47+00:00</published>
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The function match_records() may take a while due to a large
number of string comparisons, so when in PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
kernels we could face RCU stalls due to that.

Add a cond_resched() to prevent that.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115204847.593616-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # from RCU CPU stall warning perspective
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The function match_records() may take a while due to a large
number of string comparisons, so when in PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
kernels we could face RCU stalls due to that.

Add a cond_resched() to prevent that.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115204847.593616-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt; # from RCU CPU stall warning perspective
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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