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Linus Torvalds 0238d3c753 arm64 updates for 5.6
- New architecture features
 	* Support for Armv8.5 E0PD, which benefits KASLR in the same way as
 	  KPTI but without the overhead. This allows KPTI to be disabled on
 	  CPUs that are not affected by Meltdown, even is KASLR is enabled.
 
 	* Initial support for the Armv8.5 RNG instructions, which claim to
 	  provide access to a high bandwidth, cryptographically secure hardware
 	  random number generator. As well as exposing these to userspace, we
 	  also use them as part of the KASLR seed and to seed the crng once
 	  all CPUs have come online.
 
 	* Advertise a bunch of new instructions to userspace, including support
 	  for Data Gathering Hint, Matrix Multiply and 16-bit floating point.
 
 - Kexec
 	* Cleanups in preparation for relocating with the MMU enabled
 	* Support for loading crash dump kernels with kexec_file_load()
 
 - Perf and PMU drivers
 	* Cleanups and non-critical fixes for a couple of system PMU drivers
 
 - FPU-less (aka broken) CPU support
 	* Considerable fixes to support CPUs without the FP/SIMD extensions,
 	  including their presence in heterogeneous systems. Good luck finding
 	  a 64-bit userspace that handles this.
 
 - Modern assembly function annotations
 	* Start migrating our use of ENTRY() and ENDPROC() over to the
 	  new-fangled SYM_{CODE,FUNC}_{START,END} macros, which are intended to
 	  aid debuggers
 
 - Kbuild
 	* Cleanup detection of LSE support in the assembler by introducing
 	  'as-instr'
 
 	* Remove compressed Image files when building clean targets
 
 - IP checksumming
 	* Implement optimised IPv4 checksumming routine when hardware offload
 	  is not in use. An IPv6 version is in the works, pending testing.
 
 - Hardware errata
 	* Work around Cortex-A55 erratum #1530923
 
 - Shadow call stack
 	* Work around some issues with Clang's integrated assembler not liking
 	  our perfectly reasonable assembly code
 
 	* Avoid allocating the X18 register, so that it can be used to hold the
 	  shadow call stack pointer in future
 
 - ACPI
 	* Fix ID count checking in IORT code. This may regress broken firmware
 	  that happened to work with the old implementation, in which case we'll
 	  have to revert it and try something else
 
 	* Fix DAIF corruption on return from GHES handler with pseudo-NMIs
 
 - Miscellaneous
 	* Whitelist some CPUs that are unaffected by Spectre-v2
 
 	* Reduce frequency of ASID rollover when KPTI is compiled in but
 	  inactive
 
 	* Reserve a couple of arch-specific PROT flags that are already used by
 	  Sparc and PowerPC and are planned for later use with BTI on arm64
 
 	* Preparatory cleanup of our entry assembly code in preparation for
 	  moving more of it into C later on
 
 	* Refactoring and cleanup
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The changes are a real mixed bag this time around.

  The only scary looking one from the diffstat is the uapi change to
  asm-generic/mman-common.h, but this has been acked by Arnd and is
  actually just adding a pair of comments in an attempt to prevent
  allocation of some PROT values which tend to get used for
  arch-specific purposes. We'll be using them for Branch Target
  Identification (a CFI-like hardening feature), which is currently
  under review on the mailing list.

  New architecture features:

   - Support for Armv8.5 E0PD, which benefits KASLR in the same way as
     KPTI but without the overhead. This allows KPTI to be disabled on
     CPUs that are not affected by Meltdown, even is KASLR is enabled.

   - Initial support for the Armv8.5 RNG instructions, which claim to
     provide access to a high bandwidth, cryptographically secure
     hardware random number generator. As well as exposing these to
     userspace, we also use them as part of the KASLR seed and to seed
     the crng once all CPUs have come online.

   - Advertise a bunch of new instructions to userspace, including
     support for Data Gathering Hint, Matrix Multiply and 16-bit
     floating point.

  Kexec:

   - Cleanups in preparation for relocating with the MMU enabled

   - Support for loading crash dump kernels with kexec_file_load()

  Perf and PMU drivers:

   - Cleanups and non-critical fixes for a couple of system PMU drivers

  FPU-less (aka broken) CPU support:

   - Considerable fixes to support CPUs without the FP/SIMD extensions,
     including their presence in heterogeneous systems. Good luck
     finding a 64-bit userspace that handles this.

  Modern assembly function annotations:

   - Start migrating our use of ENTRY() and ENDPROC() over to the
     new-fangled SYM_{CODE,FUNC}_{START,END} macros, which are intended
     to aid debuggers

  Kbuild:

   - Cleanup detection of LSE support in the assembler by introducing
     'as-instr'

   - Remove compressed Image files when building clean targets

  IP checksumming:

   - Implement optimised IPv4 checksumming routine when hardware offload
     is not in use. An IPv6 version is in the works, pending testing.

  Hardware errata:

   - Work around Cortex-A55 erratum #1530923

  Shadow call stack:

   - Work around some issues with Clang's integrated assembler not
     liking our perfectly reasonable assembly code

   - Avoid allocating the X18 register, so that it can be used to hold
     the shadow call stack pointer in future

  ACPI:

   - Fix ID count checking in IORT code. This may regress broken
     firmware that happened to work with the old implementation, in
     which case we'll have to revert it and try something else

   - Fix DAIF corruption on return from GHES handler with pseudo-NMIs

  Miscellaneous:

   - Whitelist some CPUs that are unaffected by Spectre-v2

   - Reduce frequency of ASID rollover when KPTI is compiled in but
     inactive

   - Reserve a couple of arch-specific PROT flags that are already used
     by Sparc and PowerPC and are planned for later use with BTI on
     arm64

   - Preparatory cleanup of our entry assembly code in preparation for
     moving more of it into C later on

   - Refactoring and cleanup"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (73 commits)
  arm64: acpi: fix DAIF manipulation with pNMI
  arm64: kconfig: Fix alignment of E0PD help text
  arm64: Use v8.5-RNG entropy for KASLR seed
  arm64: Implement archrandom.h for ARMv8.5-RNG
  arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'
  arm64: entry: Avoid empty alternatives entries
  arm64: Kconfig: select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
  arm64: csum: Fix pathological zero-length calls
  arm64: entry: cleanup sp_el0 manipulation
  arm64: entry: cleanup el0 svc handler naming
  arm64: entry: mark all entry code as notrace
  arm64: assembler: remove smp_dmb macro
  arm64: assembler: remove inherit_daif macro
  ACPI/IORT: Fix 'Number of IDs' handling in iort_id_map()
  mm: Reserve asm-generic prot flags 0x10 and 0x20 for arch use
  arm64: Use macros instead of hard-coded constants for MAIR_EL1
  arm64: Add KRYO{3,4}XX CPU cores to spectre-v2 safe list
  arm64: kernel: avoid x18 in __cpu_soft_restart
  arm64: kvm: stop treating register x18 as caller save
  arm64/lib: copy_page: avoid x18 register in assembler code
  ...
2020-01-27 08:58:19 -08:00
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