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2017-02-28Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+114
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two documentation updates, plus a debugging annotation fix" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel() x86/irq, trace: Add __irq_entry annotation to x86's platform IRQ handlers Documentation, x86, resctrl: Recommend locking for resctrlfs
2017-02-20Merge branches 'x86/cache', 'x86/debug' and 'x86/irq' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar1-0/+114
Pick up simple singular commits from their topic branches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-07efi: Get and store the secure boot statusDavid Howells1-0/+2
Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash it somewhere that the main kernel image can find. The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a) generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode. For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot loader or kexec. This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new kernel. Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org [ Small readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-12-23Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "There's a number of fixes: - a round of fixes for CPUID-less legacy CPUs - a number of microcode loader fixes - i8042 detection robustization fixes - stack dump/unwinder fixes - x86 SoC platform driver fixes - a GCC 7 warning fix - virtualization related fixes" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) Revert "x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address" x86/paravirt: Mark unused patch_default label x86/microcode/AMD: Reload proper initrd start address x86/platform/intel/quark: Add printf attribute to imr_self_test_result() x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch MPU3050 driver to IIO x86/alternatives: Do not use sync_core() to serialize I$ x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id x86/hyperv: Handle unknown NMIs on one CPU when unknown_nmi_panic x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self x86/microcode/intel: Replace sync_core() with native_cpuid() Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing" x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels x86/cpu: Probe CPUID leaf 6 even when cpuid_level == 6 x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c x86/unwind: Dump stack data on warnings x86/unwind: Adjust last frame check for aligned function stacks x86/init: Fix a couple of comment typos x86/init: Remove i8042_detect() from platform ops Input: i8042 - Trust firmware a bit more when probing on X86 x86/init: Add i8042 state to the platform data ...
2016-12-22Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+214
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cache allocation interface from Thomas Gleixner: "This provides support for Intel's Cache Allocation Technology, a cache partitioning mechanism. The interface is odd, but the hardware interface of that CAT stuff is odd as well. We tried hard to come up with an abstraction, but that only allows rather simple partitioning, but no way of sharing and dealing with the per package nature of this mechanism. In the end we decided to expose the allocation bitmaps directly so all combinations of the hardware can be utilized. There are two ways of associating a cache partition: - Task A task can be added to a resource group. It uses the cache partition associated to the group. - CPU All tasks which are not member of a resource group use the group to which the CPU they are running on is associated with. That allows for simple CPU based partitioning schemes. The main expected user sare: - Virtualization so a VM can only trash only the associated part of the cash w/o disturbing others - Real-Time systems to seperate RT and general workloads. - Latency sensitive enterprise workloads - In theory this also can be used to protect against cache side channel attacks" [ Intel RDT is "Resource Director Technology". The interface really is rather odd and very specific, which delayed this pull request while I was thinking about it. The pull request itself came in early during the merge window, I just delayed it until things had calmed down and I had more time. But people tell me they'll use this, and the good news is that it is _so_ specific that it's rather independent of anything else, and no user is going to depend on the interface since it's pretty rare. So if push comes to shove, we can just remove the interface and nothing will break ] * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Implement show_options() for resctrlfs x86/intel_rdt: Call intel_rdt_sched_in() with preemption disabled x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount x86/intel_rdt: Fix setting of closid when adding CPUs to a group x86/intel_rdt: Update percpu closid immeditately on CPUs affected by changee x86/intel_rdt: Reset per cpu closids on unmount x86/intel_rdt: Select KERNFS when enabling INTEL_RDT_A x86/intel_rdt: Prevent deadlock against hotplug lock x86/intel_rdt: Protect info directory from removal x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to Documentation x86/intel_rdt: Export the minimum number of set mask bits in sysfs x86/intel_rdt: Propagate error in rdt_mount() properly x86/intel_rdt: Add a missing #include MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for Intel RDT resource allocation x86/intel_rdt: Add scheduler hook x86/intel_rdt: Add schemata file x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus file x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir to resctrl file system x86/intel_rdt: Add "info" files to resctrl file system ...
2016-12-20x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_idBorislav Petkov1-0/+9
It means different things on Intel and AMD so write it down so that there's no confusion. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117094557.jm6hwzdd52h7iwnj@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-12-15Documentation, x86, resctrl: Recommend locking for resctrlfsMarcelo Tosatti1-0/+114
Concurrent write or read/write access from applications to the resctrlfs directory can result in incorrect readouts or setups. Recommend a standard locking scheme for applications to use. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161214170835.GA16924@amt.cnet Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-12Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
2016-11-07x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to DocumentationThomas Gleixner1-0/+19
The content of the directories and files in the info directory of the resctrl filesystem are not documented. Add the missing bits and pieces. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2016-10-30Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel resource allocation user interfaceFenghua Yu1-0/+195
The documentation describes user interface of how to allocate resource in Intel RDT. Please note that the documentation covers generic user interface. Current patch set code only implemente CAT L3. CAT L2 code will be sent later. [ tglx: Added cpu example ] Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com> Cc: "Sai Prakhya" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com> Cc: "Nilay Vaish" <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: "Vikas Shivappa" <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477692289-37412-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-10-25x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dumpJosh Poimboeuf1-4/+0
For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack values: ... [registers] Stack: ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0 ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: ... This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed anymore. It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses. Linus says: "The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having used them in the last ten+ years. Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above harder." This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the 'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> 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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-24docs: fix locations of several documents that got movedMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+64
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner: "This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the documentation. The mm side of this has been acked by Mel" * 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/pkeys: Update documentation x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches x86/pkeys: Add self-tests x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/ generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls x86: Wire up protection keys system calls x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
2016-10-05x86/pkeys: Update documentationDave Hansen1-9/+5
There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection keys documentation. The config option description only applied to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current code. There was also a typo with the number of system calls. I also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided facility, and where to find an implementation. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004163857.71E0D6F6@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-09pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/Dave Hansen1-0/+62
This spells out all of the pkey-related system calls that we have and provides some example code fragments to demonstrate how we expect them to be used. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160729163020.59350E33@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-06x86: fix memory ranges in mm documentationLorenzo Stoakes1-3/+3
This is a trivial fix to correct upper bound addresses to always be inclusive. Previously, the majority of ranges specified were inclusive with a small minority specifying an exclusive upper bound. This patch fixes this inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-07Merge tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present" * tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 Documenation: update cgroup's document path Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
2016-08-03Documenation: update cgroup's document pathseokhoon.yoon1-2/+2
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-07-27Merge branch 'linus' into x86/microcode, to pick up merge window changesIngo Molnar4-6/+10
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-25Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes: - add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY (Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu) - enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees Cook) - EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar) - misc cleanups/fixes" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
2016-07-08x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regionsThomas Garnier1-0/+4
Randomizes the virtual address space of kernel memory regions for x86_64. This first patch adds the infrastructure and does not randomize any region. The following patches will randomize the physical memory mapping, vmalloc and vmemmap regions. This security feature mitigates exploits relying on predictable kernel addresses. These addresses can be used to disclose the kernel modules base addresses or corrupt specific structures to elevate privileges bypassing the current implementation of KASLR. This feature can be enabled with the CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY option. The order of each memory region is not changed. The feature looks at the available space for the regions based on different configuration options and randomizes the base and space between each. The size of the physical memory mapping is the available physical memory. No performance impact was detected while testing the feature. Entropy is generated using the KASLR early boot functions now shared in the lib directory (originally written by Kees Cook). Randomization is done on PGD & PUD page table levels to increase possible addresses. The physical memory mapping code was adapted to support PUD level virtual addresses. This implementation on the best configuration provides 30,000 possible virtual addresses in average for each memory region. An additional low memory page is used to ensure each CPU can start with a PGD aligned virtual address (for realmode). x86/dump_pagetable was updated to correctly display each region. Updated documentation on x86_64 memory layout accordingly. Performance data, after all patches in the series: Kernbench shows almost no difference (-+ less than 1%): Before: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.63 (1.2695) User Time 1034.89 (1.18115) System Time 87.056 (0.456416) Percent CPU 1092.9 (13.892) Context Switches 199805 (3455.33) Sleeps 97907.8 (900.636) After: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.489 (1.10636) User Time 1034.86 (1.36053) System Time 87.764 (0.49345) Percent CPU 1095 (12.7715) Context Switches 199036 (4298.1) Sleeps 97681.6 (1031.11) Hackbench shows 0% difference on average (hackbench 90 repeated 10 times): attemp,before,after 1,0.076,0.069 2,0.072,0.069 3,0.066,0.066 4,0.066,0.068 5,0.066,0.067 6,0.066,0.069 7,0.067,0.066 8,0.063,0.067 9,0.067,0.065 10,0.068,0.071 average,0.0677,0.0677 Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466556426-32664-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-01x86/Documentation: Fix various typos in Documentation/x86/ filesMasanari Iida3-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@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: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160701034601.30308-1-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08Documentation/microcode: Document some aspects for more clarityBorislav Petkov1-1/+4
Document that builtin microcode is 64-bit only. Also, improve/add comments to places. 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: 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/1465225850-7352-10-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-19Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A bit busier this time around. The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel docs. Someday. Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) doc: self-protection: provide initial details serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space docproc: abstract docproc directive detection docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes ...
2016-04-28Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakesEric Engestrom1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-04-22Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to fix semantic conflictIngo Molnar1-3/+3
'cpu_has_pse' has changed to boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE), fix this up in the merge commit when merging the x86/urgent tree that includes the following commit: 103f6112f253 ("x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-22x86/doc: Correct limits in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txtJuergen Gross1-3/+3
Correct the size of the module mapping space and the maximum available physical memory size of current processors. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.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: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461310504-15977-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-13Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm to pick up dependent fixesIngo Molnar2-0/+235
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-29x86/pat: Document the PAT initialization sequenceToshi Kani1-0/+32
Update PAT documentation to describe how PAT is initialized under various configurations. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: elliott@hpe.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-8-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-29x86/mm/pkeys: Add missing DocumentationDave Hansen1-0/+27
Stefan Richter noticed that the X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS option in arch/x86/Kconfig references Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt, but the file does not exist. This is a patch merging mishap: the final (v8) version of the pkeys series did not include the documentation patch 32 and v7 included. Add it now. Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> 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-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190634.426BEE41@viggo.jf.intel.com [ Added changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-29x86/Documentation: Start documenting x86 topologyBorislav Petkov1-0/+208
This should contain important aspects of how we represent the system topology on x86. If people have questions about it and this file doesn't answer it, then it must be updated. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160328095609.GD26651@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-03-20Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Luis R. Rodriguez1-4/+16
mtrr_del() 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 ↵Linus Torvalds4-10/+63
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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 ↵Ingo Molnar4-10/+63
x86/core, to merge last updates 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>