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<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-04T17:00:49+00:00</published>
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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T21:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T23:46:09+00:00</published>
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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c47f39e3b75e1138823984ad5079547c7a41b726'/>
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T07:44:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=9cd4d78e21cfdc709b1af516214ec4f69ee0e6bd'/>
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Define some functions and macros that will be used in early loading ucode. Some
of them are moved from microcode_intel.c driver in order to be called in early
boot phase before module can be called.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Define some functions and macros that will be used in early loading ucode. Some
of them are moved from microcode_intel.c driver in order to be called in early
boot phase before module can be called.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes/x86: Move kprobes stuff under arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/</title>
<updated>2013-01-21T18:22:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-28T08:15:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f684199f5de805ac50ea5bdec2b082882586a777'/>
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Move arch-dep kprobes stuff under arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081522.3560.75469.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
[ fixed whitespace and s/__attribute__((packed))/__packed/ ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Move arch-dep kprobes stuff under arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081522.3560.75469.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
[ fixed whitespace and s/__attribute__((packed))/__packed/ ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes/x86: Move ftrace-based kprobe code into kprobes-ftrace.c</title>
<updated>2013-01-21T18:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-28T08:15:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=e7dbfe349d12eabb7783b117e0c115f6f3d9ef9e'/>
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Split ftrace-based kprobes code from kprobes, and introduce
CONFIG_(HAVE_)KPROBES_ON_FTRACE Kconfig flags.
For the cleanup reason, this also moves kprobe_ftrace check
into skip_singlestep.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081520.3560.25624.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Split ftrace-based kprobes code from kprobes, and introduce
CONFIG_(HAVE_)KPROBES_ON_FTRACE Kconfig flags.
For the cleanup reason, this also moves kprobe_ftrace check
into skip_singlestep.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081520.3560.25624.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing,x86: Add a TSC trace_clock</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T20:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Sharp</name>
<email>dhsharp@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-13T20:18:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8cbd9cc6254065c97c4bac42daa55ba1abe73a8e'/>
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In order to promote interoperability between userspace tracers and ftrace,
add a trace_clock that reports raw TSC values which will then be recorded
in the ring buffer. Userspace tracers that also record TSCs are then on
exactly the same time base as the kernel and events can be unambiguously
interlaced.

Tested: Enabled a tracepoint and the "tsc" trace_clock and saw very large
timestamp values.

v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v3:
Rename "x86-tsc", cleanups
v7:
Generic arch bits in Kbuild.

Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In order to promote interoperability between userspace tracers and ftrace,
add a trace_clock that reports raw TSC values which will then be recorded
in the ring buffer. Userspace tracers that also record TSCs are then on
exactly the same time base as the kernel and events can be unambiguously
interlaced.

Tested: Enabled a tracepoint and the "tsc" trace_clock and saw very large
timestamp values.

v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v3:
Rename "x86-tsc", cleanups
v7:
Generic arch bits in Kbuild.

Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Allow tracing of functions in arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c</title>
<updated>2012-10-24T11:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T12:07:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=ce37f400336a34bb6e72c4700f9dcc2a41ff7163'/>
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<content type='text'>
Move native_read_tsc() to tsc.c to allow profiling to be
re-enabled for rtc.c.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349698050-6560-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Move native_read_tsc() to tsc.c to allow profiling to be
re-enabled for rtc.c.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349698050-6560-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-10-10T03:02:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-10T03:02:25+00:00</published>
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Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread-&gt;forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
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<pre>
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread-&gt;forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2012-10-04T16:30:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-04T16:30:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=ecefbd94b834fa32559d854646d777c56749ef1c'/>
<id>ecefbd94b834fa32559d854646d777c56749ef1c</id>
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Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
  level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
  Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
  PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."

* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
  KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
  KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
  KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
  KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
  KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
  KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
  KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
  KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
  KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
  KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
  KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
  KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
  KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
  KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
  KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
	arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
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<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
  level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
  Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
  PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."

* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
  KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
  KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
  KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
  KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
  KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
  KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
  KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
  KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
  KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
  KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
  KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
  KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
  KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
  KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
  KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
  KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
  KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
	arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
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