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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.17-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T09:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-19T09:38:21+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the DA9063 as used on the HiFive Unmatched.

 - Support for relative extables, which puts us in line with other
   architectures and save some space in vmlinux.

 - A handful of kexec fixes/improvements, including the ability to run
   crash kernels from PCI-addressable memory on the HiFive Unmatched.

 - Support for the SBI SRST extension, which allows systems that do not
   have an explicit driver in Linux to reboot.

 - A handful of fixes and cleanups, including to the defconfigs and
   device trees.

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.17-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (52 commits)
  RISC-V: Use SBI SRST extension when available
  riscv: mm: fix wrong phys_ram_base value for RV64
  RISC-V: Use common riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask() for both SMP=y and SMP=n
  riscv: head: remove useless __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS and .balign
  riscv: errata: alternative: mark vendor_patch_func __initdata
  riscv: head: make secondary_start_common() static
  riscv: remove cpu_stop()
  riscv: try to allocate crashkern region from 32bit addressible memory
  riscv: use hart id instead of cpu id on machine_kexec
  riscv: Don't use va_pa_offset on kdump
  riscv: dts: sifive: fu540-c000: Fix PLIC node
  riscv: dts: sifive: fu540-c000: Drop bogus soc node compatible values
  riscv: dts: sifive: Group tuples in register properties
  riscv: dts: sifive: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix clock controller node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix reference clock node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix PLIC node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Drop empty chosen node
  riscv: dts: canaan: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  ...
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the DA9063 as used on the HiFive Unmatched.

 - Support for relative extables, which puts us in line with other
   architectures and save some space in vmlinux.

 - A handful of kexec fixes/improvements, including the ability to run
   crash kernels from PCI-addressable memory on the HiFive Unmatched.

 - Support for the SBI SRST extension, which allows systems that do not
   have an explicit driver in Linux to reboot.

 - A handful of fixes and cleanups, including to the defconfigs and
   device trees.

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.17-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (52 commits)
  RISC-V: Use SBI SRST extension when available
  riscv: mm: fix wrong phys_ram_base value for RV64
  RISC-V: Use common riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask() for both SMP=y and SMP=n
  riscv: head: remove useless __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS and .balign
  riscv: errata: alternative: mark vendor_patch_func __initdata
  riscv: head: make secondary_start_common() static
  riscv: remove cpu_stop()
  riscv: try to allocate crashkern region from 32bit addressible memory
  riscv: use hart id instead of cpu id on machine_kexec
  riscv: Don't use va_pa_offset on kdump
  riscv: dts: sifive: fu540-c000: Fix PLIC node
  riscv: dts: sifive: fu540-c000: Drop bogus soc node compatible values
  riscv: dts: sifive: Group tuples in register properties
  riscv: dts: sifive: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix clock controller node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix reference clock node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Fix PLIC node
  riscv: dts: microchip: mpfs: Drop empty chosen node
  riscv: dts: canaan: Group tuples in interrupt properties
  ...
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<entry>
<title>scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T21:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinan Liu</name>
<email>yinan@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-12T11:33:58+00:00</published>
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When the kernel starts, the initialization of ftrace takes
up a portion of the time (approximately 6~8ms) to sort mcount
addresses. We can save this time by moving mcount-sorting to
compile time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211212113358.34208-2-yinan@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Yinan Liu &lt;yinan@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When the kernel starts, the initialization of ftrace takes
up a portion of the time (approximately 6~8ms) to sort mcount
addresses. We can save this time by moving mcount-sorting to
compile time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211212113358.34208-2-yinan@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Yinan Liu &lt;yinan@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>riscv: extable: add `type` and `data` fields</title>
<updated>2022-01-06T01:52:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jisheng Zhang</name>
<email>jszhang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-18T11:26:05+00:00</published>
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This is a riscv port of commit d6e2cc564775 ("arm64: extable: add `type`
and `data` fields").

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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This is a riscv port of commit d6e2cc564775 ("arm64: extable: add `type`
and `data` fields").

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>riscv: switch to relative exception tables</title>
<updated>2022-01-06T01:52:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jisheng Zhang</name>
<email>jszhang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-18T11:22:51+00:00</published>
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Similar as other architectures such as arm64, x86 and so on, use
offsets relative to the exception table entry values rather than
absolute addresses for both the exception locationand the fixup.

However, RISCV label difference will actually produce two relocations,
a pair of R_RISCV_ADD32 and R_RISCV_SUB32. Take below simple code for
example:

$ cat test.S
.section .text
1:
        nop
.section __ex_table,"a"
        .balign 4
        .long (1b - .)
.previous

$ riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc -c test.S
$ riscv64-linux-gnu-readelf -r test.o
Relocation section '.rela__ex_table' at offset 0x100 contains 2 entries:
  Offset          Info           Type           Sym. Value    Sym. Name + Addend
000000000000  000600000023 R_RISCV_ADD32     0000000000000000 .L1^B1 + 0
000000000000  000500000027 R_RISCV_SUB32     0000000000000000 .L0  + 0

The modpost will complain the R_RISCV_SUB32 relocation, so we need to
patch modpost.c to skip this relocation for .rela__ex_table section.

After this patch, the __ex_table section size of defconfig vmlinux is
reduced from 7072 Bytes to 3536 Bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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Similar as other architectures such as arm64, x86 and so on, use
offsets relative to the exception table entry values rather than
absolute addresses for both the exception locationand the fixup.

However, RISCV label difference will actually produce two relocations,
a pair of R_RISCV_ADD32 and R_RISCV_SUB32. Take below simple code for
example:

$ cat test.S
.section .text
1:
        nop
.section __ex_table,"a"
        .balign 4
        .long (1b - .)
.previous

$ riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc -c test.S
$ riscv64-linux-gnu-readelf -r test.o
Relocation section '.rela__ex_table' at offset 0x100 contains 2 entries:
  Offset          Info           Type           Sym. Value    Sym. Name + Addend
000000000000  000600000023 R_RISCV_ADD32     0000000000000000 .L1^B1 + 0
000000000000  000500000027 R_RISCV_SUB32     0000000000000000 .L0  + 0

The modpost will complain the R_RISCV_SUB32 relocation, so we need to
patch modpost.c to skip this relocation for .rela__ex_table section.

After this patch, the __ex_table section size of defconfig vmlinux is
reduced from 7072 Bytes to 3536 Bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scripts/sorttable: Unify arm64 &amp; x86 sort functions</title>
<updated>2022-01-05T18:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-08T11:42:20+00:00</published>
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The format of the arm64 and x86 exception table entries is essentially
the same as of commits:

  46d28947d9876fc0 ("x86/extable: Rework the exception table mechanics")
  d6e2cc5647753825 ("arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields")

Both use a 12-byte entry consisting of two 32-bit relative offsets and
32 bits of (absolute) data, and their sort functions are identical aside
from commentary, with arm64 saying:

   /* Don't touch the fixup type or data */

... and x86 saying:

  /* Don't touch the fixup type */

Unify the two behind a common sort_relative_table_with_data() function,
retaining the arm64 commentary.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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The format of the arm64 and x86 exception table entries is essentially
the same as of commits:

  46d28947d9876fc0 ("x86/extable: Rework the exception table mechanics")
  d6e2cc5647753825 ("arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields")

Both use a 12-byte entry consisting of two 32-bit relative offsets and
32 bits of (absolute) data, and their sort functions are identical aside
from commentary, with arm64 saying:

   /* Don't touch the fixup type or data */

... and x86 saying:

  /* Don't touch the fixup type */

Unify the two behind a common sort_relative_table_with_data() function,
retaining the arm64 commentary.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T23:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T23:33:53+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "There's the usual summary below, but the highlights are support for
  the Armv8.6 timer extensions, KASAN support for asymmetric MTE, the
  ability to kexec() with the MMU enabled and a second attempt at
  switching to the generic pfn_valid() implementation.

  Summary:

   - Support for the Arm8.6 timer extensions, including a
     self-synchronising view of the system registers to elide some
     expensive ISB instructions.

   - Exception table cleanup and rework so that the fixup handlers
     appear correctly in backtraces.

   - A handful of miscellaneous changes, the main one being selection of
     CONFIG_HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK.

   - More mm and pgtable cleanups.

   - KASAN support for "asymmetric" MTE, where tag faults are reported
     synchronously for loads (via an exception) and asynchronously for
     stores (via a register).

   - Support for leaving the MMU enabled during kexec relocation, which
     significantly speeds up the operation.

   - Minor improvements to our perf PMU drivers.

   - Improvements to the compat vDSO build system, particularly when
     building with LLVM=1.

   - Preparatory work for handling some Coresight TRBE tracing errata.

   - Cleanup and refactoring of the SVE code to pave the way for SME
     support in future.

   - Ensure SCS pages are unpoisoned immediately prior to freeing them
     when KASAN is enabled for the vmalloc area.

   - Try moving to the generic pfn_valid() implementation again now that
     the DMA mapping issue from last time has been resolved.

   - Numerous improvements and additions to our FPSIMD and SVE
     selftests"

[ armv8.6 timer updates were in a shared branch and already came in
  through -tip in the timer pull  - Linus ]

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (85 commits)
  arm64: Select POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
  arm64: Document boot requirements for FEAT_SME_FA64
  arm64/sve: Fix warnings when SVE is disabled
  arm64/sve: Add stub for sve_max_virtualisable_vl()
  arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
  arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures
  arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
  arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
  selftests: arm64: Factor out utility functions for assembly FP tests
  arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: remove `.fixup` section
  arm64: extable: add load_unaligned_zeropad() handler
  arm64: extable: add a dedicated uaccess handler
  arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields
  arm64: extable: use `ex` for `exception_table_entry`
  arm64: extable: make fixup_exception() return bool
  arm64: extable: consolidate definitions
  arm64: gpr-num: support W registers
  arm64: factor out GPR numbering helpers
  arm64: kvm: use kvm_exception_table_entry
  arm64: lib: __arch_copy_to_user(): fold fixups into body
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "There's the usual summary below, but the highlights are support for
  the Armv8.6 timer extensions, KASAN support for asymmetric MTE, the
  ability to kexec() with the MMU enabled and a second attempt at
  switching to the generic pfn_valid() implementation.

  Summary:

   - Support for the Arm8.6 timer extensions, including a
     self-synchronising view of the system registers to elide some
     expensive ISB instructions.

   - Exception table cleanup and rework so that the fixup handlers
     appear correctly in backtraces.

   - A handful of miscellaneous changes, the main one being selection of
     CONFIG_HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK.

   - More mm and pgtable cleanups.

   - KASAN support for "asymmetric" MTE, where tag faults are reported
     synchronously for loads (via an exception) and asynchronously for
     stores (via a register).

   - Support for leaving the MMU enabled during kexec relocation, which
     significantly speeds up the operation.

   - Minor improvements to our perf PMU drivers.

   - Improvements to the compat vDSO build system, particularly when
     building with LLVM=1.

   - Preparatory work for handling some Coresight TRBE tracing errata.

   - Cleanup and refactoring of the SVE code to pave the way for SME
     support in future.

   - Ensure SCS pages are unpoisoned immediately prior to freeing them
     when KASAN is enabled for the vmalloc area.

   - Try moving to the generic pfn_valid() implementation again now that
     the DMA mapping issue from last time has been resolved.

   - Numerous improvements and additions to our FPSIMD and SVE
     selftests"

[ armv8.6 timer updates were in a shared branch and already came in
  through -tip in the timer pull  - Linus ]

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (85 commits)
  arm64: Select POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
  arm64: Document boot requirements for FEAT_SME_FA64
  arm64/sve: Fix warnings when SVE is disabled
  arm64/sve: Add stub for sve_max_virtualisable_vl()
  arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
  arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures
  arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
  arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
  selftests: arm64: Factor out utility functions for assembly FP tests
  arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: remove `.fixup` section
  arm64: extable: add load_unaligned_zeropad() handler
  arm64: extable: add a dedicated uaccess handler
  arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields
  arm64: extable: use `ex` for `exception_table_entry`
  arm64: extable: make fixup_exception() return bool
  arm64: extable: consolidate definitions
  arm64: gpr-num: support W registers
  arm64: factor out GPR numbering helpers
  arm64: kvm: use kvm_exception_table_entry
  arm64: lib: __arch_copy_to_user(): fold fixups into body
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields</title>
<updated>2021-10-21T09:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-19T16:02:16+00:00</published>
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Subsequent patches will add specialized handlers for fixups, in addition
to the simple PC fixup and BPF handlers we have today. In preparation,
this patch adds a new `type` field to struct exception_table_entry, and
uses this to distinguish the fixup and BPF cases. A `data` field is also
added so that subsequent patches can associate data specific to each
exception site (e.g. register numbers).

Handlers are named ex_handler_*() for consistency, following the exmaple
of x86. At the same time, get_ex_fixup() is split out into a helper so
that it can be used by other ex_handler_*() functions ins subsequent
patches.

This patch will increase the size of the exception tables, which will be
remedied by subsequent patches removing redundant fixup code. There
should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Since each entry is now 12 bytes in size, we must reduce the alignment
of each entry from `.align 3` (i.e. 8 bytes) to `.align 2` (i.e. 4
bytes), which is the natrual alignment of the `insn` and `fixup` fields.
The current 8-byte alignment is a holdover from when the `insn` and
`fixup` fields was 8 bytes, and while not harmful has not been necessary
since commit:

  6c94f27ac847ff8e ("arm64: switch to relative exception tables")

Similarly, RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN is dropped to 4 bytes.

Concurrently with this patch, x86's exception table entry format is
being updated (similarly to a 12-byte format, with 32-bytes of absolute
data). Once both have been merged it should be possible to unify the
sorttable logic for the two.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019160219.5202-11-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Subsequent patches will add specialized handlers for fixups, in addition
to the simple PC fixup and BPF handlers we have today. In preparation,
this patch adds a new `type` field to struct exception_table_entry, and
uses this to distinguish the fixup and BPF cases. A `data` field is also
added so that subsequent patches can associate data specific to each
exception site (e.g. register numbers).

Handlers are named ex_handler_*() for consistency, following the exmaple
of x86. At the same time, get_ex_fixup() is split out into a helper so
that it can be used by other ex_handler_*() functions ins subsequent
patches.

This patch will increase the size of the exception tables, which will be
remedied by subsequent patches removing redundant fixup code. There
should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Since each entry is now 12 bytes in size, we must reduce the alignment
of each entry from `.align 3` (i.e. 8 bytes) to `.align 2` (i.e. 4
bytes), which is the natrual alignment of the `insn` and `fixup` fields.
The current 8-byte alignment is a holdover from when the `insn` and
`fixup` fields was 8 bytes, and while not harmful has not been necessary
since commit:

  6c94f27ac847ff8e ("arm64: switch to relative exception tables")

Similarly, RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN is dropped to 4 bytes.

Concurrently with this patch, x86's exception table entry format is
being updated (similarly to a 12-byte format, with 32-bytes of absolute
data). Once both have been merged it should be possible to unify the
sorttable logic for the two.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019160219.5202-11-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/fpu, to resolve a conflict</title>
<updated>2021-10-16T13:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-16T13:17:46+00:00</published>
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Resolve the conflict between these commits:

   x86/fpu:      1193f408cd51 ("x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of __fpu_restore_sig() to boolean")

   x86/urgent:   d298b03506d3 ("x86/fpu: Restore the masking out of reserved MXCSR bits")
                 b2381acd3fd9 ("x86/fpu: Mask out the invalid MXCSR bits properly")

 Conflicts:
        arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Resolve the conflict between these commits:

   x86/fpu:      1193f408cd51 ("x86/fpu/signal: Change return type of __fpu_restore_sig() to boolean")

   x86/urgent:   d298b03506d3 ("x86/fpu: Restore the masking out of reserved MXCSR bits")
                 b2381acd3fd9 ("x86/fpu: Mask out the invalid MXCSR bits properly")

 Conflicts:
        arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/sorttable: riscv: fix undeclared identifier 'EM_RISCV' error</title>
<updated>2021-09-24T23:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miles Chen</name>
<email>miles.chen@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-24T22:43:38+00:00</published>
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Fix the following build failure reported in [1] by adding a conditional
definition of EM_RISCV in order to allow cross-compilation on machines
which do not have EM_RISCV definition in their host.

   scripts/sorttable.c:352:7: error: use of undeclared identifier 'EM_RISCV'

EM_RISCV was added to &lt;elf.h&gt; in glibc 2.24 so builds on systems with
glibc headers &lt; 2.24 should show this error.

[mkubecek@suse.cz: changelog addition]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e8965b25-f15b-c7b4-748c-d207dda9c8e8@i2se.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210913030625.4525-1-miles.chen@mediatek.com
Fixes: 54fed35fd393 ("riscv: Enable BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT")
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Reported-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Markus Mayer &lt;mmayer@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix the following build failure reported in [1] by adding a conditional
definition of EM_RISCV in order to allow cross-compilation on machines
which do not have EM_RISCV definition in their host.

   scripts/sorttable.c:352:7: error: use of undeclared identifier 'EM_RISCV'

EM_RISCV was added to &lt;elf.h&gt; in glibc 2.24 so builds on systems with
glibc headers &lt; 2.24 should show this error.

[mkubecek@suse.cz: changelog addition]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e8965b25-f15b-c7b4-748c-d207dda9c8e8@i2se.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210913030625.4525-1-miles.chen@mediatek.com
Fixes: 54fed35fd393 ("riscv: Enable BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT")
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Reported-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Markus Mayer &lt;mmayer@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/extable: Rework the exception table mechanics</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T15:51:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T13:29:18+00:00</published>
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The exception table entries contain the instruction address, the fixup
address and the handler address. All addresses are relative. Storing the
handler address has a few downsides:

 1) Most handlers need to be exported

 2) Handlers can be defined everywhere and there is no overview about the
    handler types

 3) MCE needs to check the handler type to decide whether an in kernel #MC
    can be recovered. The functionality of the handler itself is not in any
    way special, but for these checks there need to be separate functions
    which in the worst case have to be exported.

    Some of these 'recoverable' exception fixups are pretty obscure and
    just reuse some other handler to spare code. That obfuscates e.g. the
    #MC safe copy functions. Cleaning that up would require more handlers
    and exports

Rework the exception fixup mechanics by storing a fixup type number instead
of the handler address and invoke the proper handler for each fixup
type. Also teach the extable sort to leave the type field alone.

This makes most handlers static except for special cases like the MCE
MSR fixup and the BPF fixup. This allows to add more types for cleaning up
the obscure places without adding more handler code and exports.

There is a marginal code size reduction for a production config and it
removes _eight_ exported symbols.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210908132525.211958725@linutronix.de
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The exception table entries contain the instruction address, the fixup
address and the handler address. All addresses are relative. Storing the
handler address has a few downsides:

 1) Most handlers need to be exported

 2) Handlers can be defined everywhere and there is no overview about the
    handler types

 3) MCE needs to check the handler type to decide whether an in kernel #MC
    can be recovered. The functionality of the handler itself is not in any
    way special, but for these checks there need to be separate functions
    which in the worst case have to be exported.

    Some of these 'recoverable' exception fixups are pretty obscure and
    just reuse some other handler to spare code. That obfuscates e.g. the
    #MC safe copy functions. Cleaning that up would require more handlers
    and exports

Rework the exception fixup mechanics by storing a fixup type number instead
of the handler address and invoke the proper handler for each fixup
type. Also teach the extable sort to leave the type field alone.

This makes most handlers static except for special cases like the MCE
MSR fixup and the BPF fixup. This allows to add more types for cleaning up
the obscure places without adding more handler code and exports.

There is a marginal code size reduction for a production config and it
removes _eight_ exported symbols.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210908132525.211958725@linutronix.de
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