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* Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2020-03-311-6/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar: "This topic tree contains more commits than usual: - most of it are uaccess cleanups/reorganization by Al - there's a bunch of prototype declaration (--Wmissing-prototypes) cleanups - misc other cleanups all around the map" * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) x86/mm/set_memory: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings x86/efi: Add a prototype for efi_arch_mem_reserve() x86/mm: Mark setup_emu2phys_nid() static x86/jump_label: Move 'inline' keyword placement x86/platform/uv: Add a missing prototype for uv_bau_message_interrupt() kill uaccess_try() x86: unsafe_put-style macro for sigmask x86: x32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas x86: __setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas x86: __setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas x86: setup_sigcontext(): list user_access_{begin,end}() into callers x86: get rid of put_user_try in __setup_rt_frame() (both 32bit and 64bit) x86: ia32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas x86: ia32_setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas x86: ia32_setup_sigcontext(): lift user_access_{begin,end}() into the callers x86/alternatives: Mark text_poke_loc_init() static x86/cpu: Fix a -Wmissing-prototypes warning for init_ia32_feat_ctl() x86/mm: Drop pud_mknotpresent() x86: Replace setup_irq() by request_irq() x86/configs: Slightly reduce defconfigs ...
| * kill uaccess_try()Al Viro2020-03-261-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | finally Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2020-03-301-6/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "The EFI changes in this cycle are much larger than usual, for two (positive) reasons: - The GRUB project is showing signs of life again, resulting in the introduction of the generic Linux/UEFI boot protocol, instead of x86 specific hacks which are increasingly difficult to maintain. There's hope that all future extensions will now go through that boot protocol. - Preparatory work for RISC-V EFI support. The main changes are: - Boot time GDT handling changes - Simplify handling of EFI properties table on arm64 - Generic EFI stub cleanups, to improve command line handling, file I/O, memory allocation, etc. - Introduce a generic initrd loading method based on calling back into the firmware, instead of relying on the x86 EFI handover protocol or device tree. - Introduce a mixed mode boot method that does not rely on the x86 EFI handover protocol either, and could potentially be adopted by other architectures (if another one ever surfaces where one execution mode is a superset of another) - Clean up the contents of 'struct efi', and move out everything that doesn't need to be stored there. - Incorporate support for UEFI spec v2.8A changes that permit firmware implementations to return EFI_UNSUPPORTED from UEFI runtime services at OS runtime, and expose a mask of which ones are supported or unsupported via a configuration table. - Partial fix for the lack of by-VA cache maintenance in the decompressor on 32-bit ARM. - Changes to load device firmware from EFI boot service memory regions - Various documentation updates and minor code cleanups and fixes" * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits) efi/libstub/arm: Fix spurious message that an initrd was loaded efi/libstub/arm64: Avoid image_base value from efi_loaded_image partitions/efi: Fix partition name parsing in GUID partition entry efi/x86: Fix cast of image argument efi/libstub/x86: Use ULONG_MAX as upper bound for all allocations efi: Fix a mistype in comments mentioning efivar_entry_iter_begin() efi/libstub: Avoid linking libstub/lib-ksyms.o into vmlinux efi/x86: Preserve %ebx correctly in efi_set_virtual_address_map() efi/x86: Ignore the memory attributes table on i386 efi/x86: Don't relocate the kernel unless necessary efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block efi/x86: Add kernel preferred address to PE header efi/x86: Decompress at start of PE image load address x86/boot/compressed/32: Save the output address instead of recalculating it efi/libstub/x86: Deal with exit() boot service returning x86/boot: Use unsigned comparison for addresses efi/x86: Avoid using code32_start efi/x86: Make efi32_pe_entry() more readable efi/x86: Respect 32-bit ABI in efi32_pe_entry() efi/x86: Annotate the LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL_GUID with SYM_DATA ...
| * \ Merge branch 'efi/urgent' into efi/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar2020-03-081-1/+0
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | | x86/boot: Remove KEEP_SEGMENTS supportArvind Sankar2020-02-221-6/+2
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a24e785111a3 ("i386: paravirt boot sequence") added this flag for use by paravirtualized environments such as Xen. However, Xen never made use of this flag [1], and it was only ever used by lguest [2]. Commit ecda85e70277 ("x86/lguest: Remove lguest support") removed lguest, so KEEP_SEGMENTS has lost its last user. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4D4B097C.5050405@goop.org [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/lguest@lists.ozlabs.org/msg00469.html Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200202171353.3736319-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
* | | Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORTNick Desaulniers2020-03-271-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide more information about __ex_table sorting post link. The exception tables and fixup tables use a commonly recurring pattern in the kernel of storing the address of labels as date in custom ELF sections, then finding these sections, iterating elements within them, and possibly revisiting them or modifying the data at these addresses. Sorting readonly arrays to minimize runtime penalties is quite clever. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327000951.84071-1-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabelMauro Carvalho Chehab2020-03-201-1/+2
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Changeset 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst") enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each document title, plus to each chapter inside it. There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections with the same name anymore. A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to avoid most creating references for every single section title, but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside a document. There are a few places where there are two chapters with the same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to avoid symbol conflict within the same document. PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend (Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches" for this document: Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | docs: remove MPX from the x86 tocStephen Kitt2020-02-251-1/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | MPX was removed in commit 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86"), this removes the corresponding entry in the x86 toc. This was suggested by a Sphinx warning. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Fixes: 45fc24e89b7cc ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86") Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2020-01-301-252/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen: "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever support it widely. Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors. This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function" * tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx: x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86 mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
| * x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86Dave Hansen2020-01-231-252/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support in the toolchain going forward (gcc). This removes all the remaining (dead at this point) MPX handling code remaining in the tree. The only remaining code is the XSAVE support for MPX state which is currently needd for KVM to handle VMs which might use MPX. Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2020-01-292-25/+26
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a couple of things of note: - Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST - A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer profile entry too) Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits) docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst docs: usb: remove some broken references scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection zram: correct documentation about sysfs node of huge page writeback Documentation: zram: various fixes in zram.rst Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific Documentation: nfs: fault_injection: convert to ReST Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST Documentation: nfs-rdma: convert to ReST Documentation: nfsroot.rst: COSMETIC: refill a paragraph Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST ...
| * | Documentation: boot.rst: fix warningsDaniel W. S. Almeida2020-01-101-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. This warning was due to wrong syntax being used. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223033121.1584930-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Doc: x86: Fix a typo in mm.rstMasanari Iida2019-12-301-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a spelling typo in mm.rst. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226162138.17601-1-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Documentation: x86: fix boot.rst warning and formatRandy Dunlap2019-12-191-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a Sphinx documentation format warning by breaking a long line into 2 lines. Also drop the ':' usage after the Protocol version numbers since other Protocol versions don't use colons. Documentation/x86/boot.rst:72: WARNING: Malformed table. Text in column margin in table line 57. Fixes: 2c33c27fd603 ("x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info") Fixes: 00cd1c154d56 ("x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6fbf592-0aca-69d9-e903-e869221a041a@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2020-01-281-1/+1
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar: "Misc cleanups all around the map" * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_topology_early() x86/tsc: Remove redundant assignment x86/crash: Use resource_size() x86/cpu: Add a missing prototype for arch_smt_update() x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS x86/vdso: Provide missing include file x86/Kconfig: Correct spelling and punctuation Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typo x86/boot: Fix a comment's incorrect file reference x86/process: Remove set but not used variables prev and next x86/Kconfig: Fix Kconfig indentation
| * | | Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typoEnrico Weigelt2019-12-181-1/+1
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | s/Fileds/Fields/g Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191203113314.26810-1-info@metux.net
* / / remove ioremap_nocache and devm_ioremap_nocacheChristoph Hellwig2020-01-061-2/+0
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ioremap has provided non-cached semantics by default since the Linux 2.6 days, so remove the additional ioremap_nocache interface. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2019-11-261-0/+174
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes were: - Extend the boot protocol to allow future extensions without hitting the setup_header size limit. - Add quirk to devicetree systems to disable the RTC unless it's listed as a supported device. - Fix ld.lld linker pedantry" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info x86/init: Allow DT configured systems to disable RTC at boot time x86/realmode: Explicitly set entry point via ENTRY in linker script
| * x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirectDaniel Kiper2019-11-121-1/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The setup_data is a bit awkward to use for extremely large data objects, both because the setup_data header has to be adjacent to the data object and because it has a 32-bit length field. However, it is important that intermediate stages of the boot process have a way to identify which chunks of memory are occupied by kernel data. Thus introduce an uniform way to specify such indirect data as setup_indirect struct and SETUP_INDIRECT type. And finally bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
| * x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_maxDaniel Kiper2019-11-121-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data. Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot protocol. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-3-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
| * x86/boot: Introduce kernel_infoDaniel Kiper2019-11-121-0/+126
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The relationships between the headers are analogous to the various data sections: setup_header = .data boot_params/setup_data = .bss What is missing from the above list? That's right: kernel_info = .rodata We have been (ab)using .data for things that could go into .rodata or .bss for a long time, for lack of alternatives and -- especially early on -- inertia. Also, the BIOS stub is responsible for creating boot_params, so it isn't available to a BIOS-based loader (setup_data is, though). setup_header is permanently limited to 144 bytes due to the reach of the 2-byte jump field, which doubles as a length field for the structure, combined with the size of the "hole" in struct boot_params that a protected-mode loader or the BIOS stub has to copy it into. It is currently 119 bytes long, which leaves us with 25 very precious bytes. This isn't something that can be fixed without revising the boot protocol entirely, breaking backwards compatibility. boot_params proper is limited to 4096 bytes, but can be arbitrarily extended by adding setup_data entries. It cannot be used to communicate properties of the kernel image, because it is .bss and has no image-provided content. kernel_info solves this by providing an extensible place for information about the kernel image. It is readonly, because the kernel cannot rely on a bootloader copying its contents anywhere, but that is OK; if it becomes necessary it can still contain data items that an enabled bootloader would be expected to copy into a setup_data chunk. Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot protocol. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
* | x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async AbortPawan Gupta2019-10-282-0/+118
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation, guidance for system administrators. [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ] Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
* dma-mapping: fix filename referencesAndy Shevchenko2019-09-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | After commit cf65a0f6f6ff ("dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to kernel/dma") some of the files are referring to outdated information, i.e. old file names of DMA mapping sources. Fix it here. Note, the lines with "Glue code for..." have been removed completely. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* docs: remove extra conf.py filesMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-171-10/+0
| | | | | | | Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can remove those extra conf.py files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
* docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but are on random places (most under Documentation root dir). Move them to the admin guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
* docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide bookMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-151-2/+2
| | | | | | Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
* docs: x86: move two x86-specific files to x86 arch dirMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-153-0/+343
| | | | | | | | | Those two docs belong to the x86 architecture: Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst Documentation/intel_txt.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel_txt.rst Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
* Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2019-07-096-116/+22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...
| * Documentation: x86: fix some typosJames Morse2019-06-201-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are all obvious typos. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * Documentation: x86: Clarify MBA takes MB as referring to mba_scJames Morse2019-06-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "If the MBA is specified in MB then user can enter the max b/w in MB" is a tautology. How can the user know if the schemata takes a percentage or a MB/s value? This is referring to whether the software controller is interpreting the schemata's value. Make this clear. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * Documentation: x86: Remove cdpl2 unspported statement and fix capitalisationJames Morse2019-06-201-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "L2 cache does not support code and data prioritization". This isn't true, elsewhere the document says it can be enabled with the cdpl2 mount option. While we're here, these sample strings have lower-case code/data, which isn't how the kernel exports them. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * Documentation: x86: Contiguous cbm isn't all X86James Morse2019-06-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since commit 4d05bf71f157 ("x86/resctrl: Introduce AMD QOS feature") resctrl has supported non-contiguous cache bit masks. The interface for this is currently try-it-and-see. Update the documentation to say Intel CPUs have this requirement, instead of X86. Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: fix broken documentation linksMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-06-083-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: move protection-keys.rst to the core-api bookMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-06-082-100/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This document is used by multiple architectures: $ echo $(git grep -l pkey_mprotect arch|cut -d'/' -f 2|sort|uniq) alpha arm arm64 ia64 m68k microblaze mips parisc powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 xtensa So, let's move it to the core book and adjust the links to it accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | Merge branch 'for-5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds2019-07-081-2/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost" * 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
| * | docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-06-141-2/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to allow a later addition to the admin-guide. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | Merge branch 'x86-topology-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2019-07-081-0/+4
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 topology updates from Ingo Molnar: "Implement multi-die topology support on Intel CPUs and expose the die topology to user-space tooling, by Len Brown, Kan Liang and Zhang Rui. These changes should have no effect on the kernel's existing understanding of topologies, i.e. there should be no behavioral impact on cache, NUMA, scheduler, perf and other topologies and overall system performance" * 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel/rapl: Cosmetic rename internal variables in response to multi-die/pkg support perf/x86/intel/uncore: Cosmetic renames in response to multi-die/pkg support hwmon/coretemp: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages perf/x86/intel/cstate: Support multi-die/package perf/x86/intel/rapl: Support multi-die/package perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support multi-die/package topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes topology: Create package_cpus sysfs attribute hwmon/coretemp: Support multi-die/package powercap/intel_rapl: Update RAPL domain name and debug messages thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Support multi-die/package powercap/intel_rapl: Support multi-die/package powercap/intel_rapl: Simplify rapl_find_package() x86/topology: Define topology_logical_die_id() x86/topology: Define topology_die_id() cpu/topology: Export die_id x86/topology: Create topology_max_die_per_package() x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support
| * | x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package supportLen Brown2019-05-231-0/+4
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some new systems have multiple software-visible die within each package. Update Linux parsing of the Intel CPUID "Extended Topology Leaf" to handle either CPUID.B, or the new CPUID.1F. Add cpuinfo_x86.die_id and cpuinfo_x86.max_dies to store the result. die_id will be non-zero only for multi-die/package systems. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b23d2d26d717b8e14ba137c94b70943f1ae4b5c.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com
* / Documentation/x86: Fix path to entry_32.SIra Weiny2019-05-241-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> 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> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205253.23762-1-ira.weiny@intel.com [ Adjusted the patch to the RST conversion. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentationAndy Lutomirski2019-05-161-32/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On x86_64, all returns to usermode go through prepare_exit_to_usermode(), with the sole exception of do_nmi(). This even includes machine checks -- this was added several years ago to support MCE recovery. Update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 04dcbdb80578 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/999fa9e126ba6a48e9d214d2f18dbde5c62ac55c.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/speculation/mds: Revert CPU buffer clear on double fault exitAndy Lutomirski2019-05-161-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The double fault ESPFIX path doesn't return to user mode at all -- it returns back to the kernel by simulating a #GP fault. prepare_exit_to_usermode() will run on the way out of general_protection before running user code. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 04dcbdb80578 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac97612445c0a44ee10374f6ea79c222fe22a5c4.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2019-05-143-0/+236
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner: "Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures has the following CVEs assigned: CVE-2018-12126 MSBDS Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling CVE-2018-12130 MFBDS Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling CVE-2018-12127 MLPDS Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling CVE-2019-11091 MDSUM Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose this data via cache side channels. Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed successfully. The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by default to avoid breaking unattended updates. The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a deeper technical view" * 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY ...
| * x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typoJosh Poimboeuf2019-05-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a minor typo in the MDS documentation: "eanbled" -> "enabled". Reported-by: Jeff Bastian <jbastian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentationspeck for Pawan Gupta2019-05-081-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs. MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM. The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
| * x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERVThomas Gleixner2019-03-061-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In virtualized environments it can happen that the host has the microcode update which utilizes the VERW instruction to clear CPU buffers, but the hypervisor is not yet updated to expose the X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR CPUID bit to guests. Introduce an internal mitigation mode VMWERV which enables the invocation of the CPU buffer clearing even if X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR is not set. If the system has no updated microcode this results in a pointless execution of the VERW instruction wasting a few CPU cycles. If the microcode is updated, but not exposed to a guest then the CPU buffers will be cleared. That said: Virtual Machines Will Eventually Receive Vaccine Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
| * x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entryThomas Gleixner2019-03-061-0/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear mechanism on idle entry. This is independent of other MDS mitigations because the idle entry invocation to mitigate the potential leakage due to store buffer repartitioning is only necessary on SMT systems. Add the actual invocations to the different halt/mwait variants which covers all usage sites. mwaitx is not patched as it's not available on Intel CPUs. The buffer clear is only invoked before entering the C-State to prevent that stale data from the idling CPU is spilled to the Hyper-Thread sibling after the Store buffer got repartitioned and all entries are available to the non idle sibling. When coming out of idle the store buffer is partitioned again so each sibling has half of it available. Now CPU which returned from idle could be speculatively exposed to contents of the sibling, but the buffers are flushed either on exit to user space or on VMENTER. When later on conditional buffer clearing is implemented on top of this, then there is no action required either because before returning to user space the context switch will set the condition flag which causes a flush on the return to user path. Note, that the buffer clearing on idle is only sensible on CPUs which are solely affected by MSBDS and not any other variant of MDS because the other MDS variants cannot be mitigated when SMT is enabled, so the buffer clearing on idle would be a window dressing exercise. This intentionally does not handle the case in the acpi/processor_idle driver which uses the legacy IO port interface for C-State transitions for two reasons: - The acpi/processor_idle driver was replaced by the intel_idle driver almost a decade ago. Anything Nehalem upwards supports it and defaults to that new driver. - The legacy IO port interface is likely to be used on older and therefore unaffected CPUs or on systems which do not receive microcode updates anymore, so there is no point in adding that. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
| * x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to userThomas Gleixner2019-03-061-0/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear mechanism on exit to user space and add the call into prepare_exit_to_usermode() and do_nmi() right before actually returning. Add documentation which kernel to user space transition this covers and explain why some corner cases are not mitigated. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
| * x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()Thomas Gleixner2019-03-063-0/+117
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulernabilities are mitigated by clearing the affected CPU buffers. The mechanism for clearing the buffers uses the unused and obsolete VERW instruction in combination with a microcode update which triggers a CPU buffer clear when VERW is executed. Provide a inline function with the assembly magic. The argument of the VERW instruction must be a memory operand as documented: "MD_CLEAR enumerates that the memory-operand variant of VERW (for example, VERW m16) has been extended to also overwrite buffers affected by MDS. This buffer overwriting functionality is not guaranteed for the register operand variant of VERW." Documentation also recommends to use a writable data segment selector: "The buffer overwriting occurs regardless of the result of the VERW permission check, as well as when the selector is null or causes a descriptor load segment violation. However, for lowest latency we recommend using a selector that indicates a valid writable data segment." Add x86 specific documentation about MDS and the internal workings of the mitigation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
* | Merge tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2019-05-1034-2060/+2558
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains the conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for some time but needed a couple of final tweaks" * tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits) Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST ...
| * | Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reSTChangbin Du2019-05-082-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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