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2016-03-20Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-6/+6
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code. This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which has security and general robustness advantages. (Matt Fleming) - Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled. This is already the status quo under other OSs. (Ard Biesheuvel) - Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable attributes for EFI memory mappings. (Sai Praneeth Prakhya) - Various arm64 UEFI enhancements. (Ard Biesheuvel) - ... various fixes and cleanups. The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already, because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about it - third time's the charm we hope!" * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits) x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd() efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a >4 KB granular kernel efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image() x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec efi: Add Persistent Memory type name efi: Add NV memory attribute x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0 efivars: Use to_efivar_entry efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock ...
2016-03-15Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+25
Pull x86 microcode updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change in this cycle was the separation of the microcode loading mechanism from the initrd code plus the support of built-in microcode images. There were also lots cleanups and general restructuring (by Borislav Petkov)" * 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) x86/microcode/intel: Drop orig_sum from ext signature checksum x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode sanity-checking error messages x86/microcode/intel: Merge two consecutive if-statements x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of DWSIZE x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32 x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method x86/microcode/AMD: Issue microcode updated message later x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup get_matching_model_microcode() x86/microcode/intel: Remove unused arg of get_matching_model_microcode() x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_in_initrd x86/microcode/intel: Use *wrmsrl variants x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup apply_microcode_intel() x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_intel variable to mc x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_count to num_saved x86/microcode/intel: Rename local variables of type struct mc_saved_data x86/microcode/AMD: Drop redundant printk prefix x86/microcode: Issue update message only once ...
2016-03-15Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar: "This is another big update. Main changes are: - lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code enhancements. In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty corners have been refreshed. (Andy Lutomirski) - vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy Lutomirski) - cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov) - lots of other changes ..." * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap() x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery ...
2016-02-18x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recoveryTony Luck1-0/+2
The Intel Software Developer Manual describes bit 24 in the MCG_CAP MSR: MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag, bit 24 — Indicates (when set) that the processor supports software error recovery But only some models with this capability bit set will actually generate recoverable machine checks. Check the model name and set a synthetic capability bit. Provide a command line option to set this bit anyway in case the kernel doesn't recognise the model name. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e5bfb23c89800a036fb8a45fa97a74bb16bc362.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-18x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling optionsTony Luck1-0/+35
Huge amounts of help from Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field. Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with: ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. ' The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a handler that executes the actions. We start out with three handlers: 1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP 2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code 3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-09x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading methodBorislav Petkov1-0/+25
Add some text and an example to Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt explaining how to build in microcode. Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-29Documentation/x86: Update EFI memory region descriptionMatt Fleming1-6/+6
Make it clear that the EFI page tables are only available during EFI runtime calls since that subject has come up a fair numbers of times in the past. Additionally, add the EFI region start and end addresses to the table so that it's possible to see at a glance where they fall in relation to other regions. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448658575-17029-7-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-01Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-4/+16
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar: "The dominant change in this cycle was the continued work to isolate kernel drivers from MTRR legacies: this tree gets rid of all kernel internal driver interfaces to MTRRs (mostly by rewriting it to proper PAT interfaces), the only access left is the /proc/mtrr ABI. This work was done by Luis R Rodriguez. There's also some related PCI interface additions for which I've Cc:-ed Bjorn" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del() s390/io: Add pci_iomap_wc() and pci_iomap_wc_range() drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc() drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc() drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc() PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants drivers/video/fbdev/gxt4500: Use pci_ioremap_wc_bar() to map framebuffer drivers/video/fbdev/kyrofb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar() drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar() PCI: Add pci_ioremap_wc_bar() x86/mm: Make kernel/check.c explicitly non-modular x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_uc() to all architectures drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc() drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Replace MTRR UC hole with strong UC drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Clarify ioremap() base and length used drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Carve out framebuffer length fudging into a helper x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default ...
2015-09-01Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-1/+2
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main x86 bootup related changes in this cycle were: - more boot time optimizations. (Len Brown) - implement hex output to allow the debugging of early bootup parameters. (Kees Cook) - remove obsolete MCA leftovers. (Paolo Pisati)" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/smpboot: Remove APIC.wait_for_init_deassert and atomic init_deasserted x86/smpboot: Remove SIPI delays from cpu_up() x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_initialized_map x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table x86/boot: Add hex output for debugging
2015-08-28x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()Luis R. Rodriguez1-4/+16
The effort to replace mtrr_add() with architecture agnostic arch_phys_wc_add() is complete, this will ensure write-combining implementations (PAT on x86) is taken advantage instead of using MTRR. With the effort done now, hide direct MTRR access for drivers. The legacy user-space /proc/mtrr ABI is not affected. Update x86 documentation on MTRR to reflect the completion of the phasing out of direct access to MTRR, also add a note on platform firmware code use of MTRRs based on the obituary discussion of MTRRs on Linux [0]. [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438991330.3109.196.camel@hp.com Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: bhelgaas@google.com Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: mst@redhat.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: vinod.koul@intel.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440443613-13696-12-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-24Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZEAlexander Kuleshov1-1/+1
The IRQSTACKSIZE was renamed to the IRQ_STACK_SIZE in the (26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu) commit, but it still named IRQSTACKSIZE in the documentation. This patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-21x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_tablePaolo Pisati1-1/+2
The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining of MCA logic. bloat-o-meter output: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55) function old new delta i386_start_kernel 128 119 -9 setup_arch 1421 1375 -46 Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-02x86/asm/entry/64: Update path namesJames C Boyd1-4/+4
The paths mentioned in this file weren't updated through some file rename commits. Fix them to refer to the correct path. Signed-off-by: James C Boyd <jcboyd.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: trivial@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435781606-3037-1-git-send-email-jcboyd.dev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-30Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Merge branch that got ready. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-22Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds4-10/+63
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar: "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat - so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request, collected into the 'x86/core' topic. The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good - but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the end. The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will have fewer dependencies). The main changes in this cycle were: * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner) - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86 interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt domains: [IOAPIC domain] ----- | [MSI domain] --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ] | (optional) | [HPET MSI domain] ----- | | [DMAR domain] ----------------------------- | [Legacy domain] ----------------------------- This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping. It's a clear separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet and the vector management. - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt injection into guests (Feng Wu) * x86/asm changes: - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations. This is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski, Brian Gerst) - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar) - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations. Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does not rely on them (Ingo Molnar) - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov) * x86/mm changes: - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers - in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov) - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support Write-Through cached memory mappings. This is especially important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani) * x86/ras changes: - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan) This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for poisoned data. That means roughly that the hardware marks data which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the form of a deferred error. It is the OS's responsibility then to take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as far as possible. - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system- wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj) - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov) * x86/platform changes: - Intel Atom SoC updates ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the shortlog and the Git log for details" * 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits) x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq() genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry() ...
2015-06-22Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-1/+0
Pull x86 EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "EFI changes: - Use idiomatic negative error values in efivar_create_sysfs_entry() instead of returning '1' to indicate error (Dan Carpenter) - Implement new support to expose the EFI System Resource Tables in sysfs, which provides information for performing firmware updates (Peter Jones) - Documentation cleanup in the EFI handover protocol section which falsely claimed that 'cmdline_size' needed to be filled out by the boot loader (Alex Smith) - Align the order of SMBIOS tables in /sys/firmware/efi/systab to match the way that we do things for ACPI and add documentation to Documentation/ABI (Jean Delvare)" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: efi: Work around ia64 build problem with ESRT driver efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI efi: dmi: List SMBIOS3 table before SMBIOS table efi/esrt: Fix some compiler warnings x86, doc: Remove cmdline_size from list of fields to be filled in for EFI handover efi: Add esrt support efi: efivar_create_sysfs_entry() should return negative error codes
2015-06-22Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/mm' and 'x86/platform' into x86/core, to merge last updatesIngo Molnar4-10/+63
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-08Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/core, to prepare for new patchIngo Molnar1-2/+2
Collect all changes to arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S, before applying patch that changes most of the file. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-08x86/asm/entry: Rename compat syscall entry pointsIngo Molnar1-2/+2
Rename the following system call entry points: ia32_cstar_target -> entry_SYSCALL_compat ia32_syscall -> entry_INT80_compat The generic naming scheme for x86 system call entry points is: entry_MNEMONIC_qualifier where 'qualifier' is one of _32, _64 or _compat. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07Merge branch 'x86/ras' into x86/core, to fix conflictsIngo Molnar1-0/+3
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07x86/mce: Add infrastructure to support Local MCEAshok Raj1-0/+3
Initialize and prepare for handling LMCEs. Add a boot-time option to disable LMCEs. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> [ Simplify stuff, align statements for better readability, reflow comments; kill unused lmce_clear(); save us an MSR write if LMCE is already enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07x86/mm/pat: Add set_memory_wt() for Write-Through typeToshi Kani1-3/+6
Now that reserve_ram_pages_type() accepts the WT type, add set_memory_wt(), set_memory_array_wt() and set_pages_array_wt() in order to be able to set memory to Write-Through page cache mode. Also, extend ioremap_change_attr() to accept the WT type. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Elliott@hp.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: hch@lst.de Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com Cc: yigal@plexistor.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-13-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07x86/mm, asm-generic: Add ioremap_wt() for creating Write-Through mappingsToshi Kani1-1/+3
Add ioremap_wt() for creating Write-Through mappings on x86. It follows the same model as ioremap_wc() for multi-arch support. Define ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WT in the x86 version of io.h to indicate that ioremap_wt() is implemented on x86. Also update the PAT documentation file to cover ioremap_wt(). Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Elliott@hp.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: hch@lst.de Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com Cc: yigal@plexistor.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27x86/mm/mtrr, pat: Document Write Combining MTRR type effects on PAT / non-PAT pagesLuis R. Rodriguez2-4/+49
As part of the effort to phase out MTRR use document write-combining MTRR effects on pages with different non-PAT page attributes flags and different PAT entry values. Extend arch_phys_wc_add() documentation to clarify power of two sizes / boundary requirements as we phase out mtrr_add() use. Lastly hint towards ioremap_uc() for corner cases on device drivers working with devices with mixed regions where MTRR size requirements would otherwise not enable write-combining effective memory types. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430343851-967-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-10-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27x86/Documentation: Adapt Ingo's explanation on printing backtracesBorislav Petkov1-0/+44
Hold it down for future reference, as the question about the question mark in stack traces keeps popping up. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150521101614.GA10889@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27x86/Documentation: Remove STACKFAULT_STACK bulletpointBorislav Petkov1-7/+3
Update the documentation after 6f442be2fb22 ("x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS"). Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-17-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27x86/Documentation: Move kernel-stacks doc one level upBorislav Petkov1-0/+0
... to Documentation/x86/ as it is going to collect more and not only 64-bit specific info. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-11x86/kaslr: Fix typo in the KASLR_FLAG documentationMiroslav Benes1-1/+1
Documentation/x86/boot.txt labels the bit in boot_params.hdr.loadflags as ALSR_FLAG while it should be KASLR_FLAG. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429011324-7170-1-git-send-email-mbenes@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-30x86, doc: Remove cmdline_size from list of fields to be filled in for EFI handoverAlex Smith1-1/+0
The cmdline_size field in setup_header is listed as read-only, and is never read by the kernel. Therefore, there is no need for it to be set by a boot loader implementing the EFI handover protocol, so remove it from the list of fields required to be set by a boot loader. Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2015-04-03x86/mm/KASLR: Propagate KASLR status to kernel properBorislav Petkov1-0/+6
Commit: e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address") made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option "nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit: f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation") In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader. Originally-From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-21Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This contains: - EFI fixes - a boot printout fix - ASLR/kASLR fixes - intel microcode driver fixes - other misc fixes Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes" x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
2015-02-18Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txtAlexander Kuleshov1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422689004-13318-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-13x86_64: add KASan supportAndrey Ryabinin1-0/+2
This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer. 16TB of virtual addressed used for shadow memory. It's located in range [ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000] between vmemmap and %esp fixup stacks. At early stage we map whole shadow region with zero page. Latter, after pages mapped to direct mapping address range we unmap zero pages from corresponding shadow (see kasan_map_shadow()) and allocate and map a real shadow memory reusing vmemmap_populate() function. Also replace __pa with __pa_nodebug before shadow initialized. __pa with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y make external function call (__phys_addr) __phys_addr is instrumented, so __asan_load could be called before shadow area initialized. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-02x86, entry: Switch stacks on a paranoid entry from userspaceAndy Lutomirski2-9/+17
This causes all non-NMI, non-double-fault kernel entries from userspace to run on the normal kernel stack. Double-fault is exempt to minimize confusion if we double-fault directly from userspace due to a bad kernel stack. This is, suprisingly, simpler and shorter than the current code. It removes the IMO rather frightening paranoid_userspace path, and it make sync_regs much simpler. There is no risk of stack overflow due to this change -- the kernel stack that we switch to is empty. This will also enable us to create non-atomic sections within machine checks from userspace, which will simplify memory failure handling. It will also allow the upcoming fsgsbase code to be simplified, because it doesn't need to worry about usergs when scheduling in paranoid_exit, as that code no longer exists. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
2014-12-19Merge branch 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-4/+14
Pull x86 MPX fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Three updates for the new MPX infrastructure: - Use the proper error check in the trap handler - Add a proper config option for it - Bring documentation up to date" * 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt x86, mpx: Update documentation x86_64/traps: Fix always true condition
2014-12-15x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option promptDave Hansen1-1/+5
Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced here): https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393 are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator provides MPX for the general public. [ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569D58D@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-12-15x86, mpx: Update documentationDave Hansen1-3/+9
I was writing some MPX test programs and realized that the current design makes it tricky. I did something like: bndcfgu |= bnd_dir | BNDCFGU_ENABLE; xrstor(); printf("xrstor done"); // #BR bounds exception here prctl(MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT); and then compiled the app with "-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx" to enable MPX instrumentation. The problem is that there is MPX instrumentation inserted in to the area of the printf(). The kernel gets a bounds exception and since management isn't yet enabled, it SIGSEGV's. Add a bit to the documentation to explain a way around this and where apps need to be careful. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183835.8C581B3E@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-12-14Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-2/+5
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes (mainly Andy's TLS fixes), plus a cleanup" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix MAINTAINERS: Add me as x86 VDSO submaintainer x86/asm: Unify segment selector defines x86/asm: Guard against building the 32/64-bit versions of the asm-offsets*.c file directly x86_64, switch_to(): Load TLS descriptors before switching DS and ES x86/mm: Use min() instead of min_t() in the e820 printout code x86/mm: Fix zone ranges boot printout x86/doc: Update documentation after file shuffling
2014-12-11x86/doc: Update documentation after file shufflingLuis R. Rodriguez1-2/+5
While at it, also refer to the 32 bit entry file. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: bpoirier@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418165684-6226-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-18x86, mpx: Add documentation on Intel MPXQiaowei Ren1-0/+234
This patch adds the Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt file with some information about Intel MPX. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151832.7FDB1720@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-09-19x86/mm: Update memory map description to list hypervisor-reserved areaDave Hansen1-1/+1
Peter Anvin says: > 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have > agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the > hypervisor or other non-OS uses. Let's call this out in the documentation. This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-08-10x86/doc: Fix the 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' sysconfig pathJeremiah Mahler1-1/+1
Fix the documented sysconfig location of 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' which is under /sys/kernel/debug/... not /sys/debug/kernel/... Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407484195-1441-1-git-send-email-jmmahler@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-31x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flushDave Hansen1-0/+75
Most of the logic here is in the documentation file. Please take a look at it. I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this new one is *WAY* simpler. I challenge anyone to describe in one sentence how the old one worked. Here's the way the new one works: If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154101.12B52CAF@viggo.jf.intel.com Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-06-05Merge branch 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into nextLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull x86-64 espfix changes from Peter Anvin: "This is the espfix64 code, which fixes the IRET information leak as well as the associated functionality problem. With this code applied, 16-bit stack segments finally work as intended even on a 64-bit kernel. Consequently, this patchset also removes the runtime option that we added as an interim measure. To help the people working on Linux kernels for very small systems, this patchset also makes these compile-time configurable features" * 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option" x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
2014-05-05doc: spelling error changesCarlos Garcia2-2/+2
Fixed multiple spelling errors. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-04-30x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stackH. Peter Anvin1-0/+2
The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in 64-bit mode. In checkin: b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work. This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF handler. (Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.) Special thanks to: - Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF. - Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing. - Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments. Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andrew Lutomriski <amluto@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com> Cc: comex <comexk@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
2014-03-13x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size nameBorislav Petkov1-2/+2
The name in struct bootparam is ->initrd_addr_max and not ramdisk_max. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394633584-5509-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-10Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad1-2/+16
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has not been touched. New 00-INDEX - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006 Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX) - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via debugfs") - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations") - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks") - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410 ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads") - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework") - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk: documentation") - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file") - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic associative array implementation.") - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839 ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup") - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations") - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM: 7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode") - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3") - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes") - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit 4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API") - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt: Linux DT usage model documentation") - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based format configuration API") - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add edid and commandline support") - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.") - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2 ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files") - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit 8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration") - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)") - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21 ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files") - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS") - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add oneshot trigger") - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds: add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation") - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits 40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add driver to kernel build system") - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add file to document IPsec corner case") - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit 3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram") - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981 ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O") - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan) - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device") - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan: virtual extensible lan") - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)") - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver") - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats") - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation) - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control") - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control") - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys: Move documentation to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add readme file") - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add driver documentation") - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver.") - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure") - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd: Documentation for OSD library") - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file") - serial/driver was part of the initial repo - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a documentation") - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390: diagnose call documentation") - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page") - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100") - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq: documentation for OMAP HDQ") - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading") - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp") - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S") - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT documentation") Moved files - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of the source code") - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates") - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86") - commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386"): * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt * x86/boot.txt * x86/zero_page.txt - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191 ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi") Removed files (left in 00-INDEX) - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove stray information") - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface") - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers") - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp: remove broken driver") - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape block docu") - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation: remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc") - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation") Typos/misc issues - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit 030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.") - commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX") * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add 1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31") - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.") Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits] Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivialLinus Torvalds1-23/+0
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
2013-12-29x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexecDave Young1-0/+3
Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to initialize. In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI initialization can succeed finally. To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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