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Linus Torvalds e0f4c59dc4 - Start checking a CPUID bit on AMD Zen3 which states that the CPU
clears the segment base when a null selector is written. Do the explicit
 detection on older CPUs, zen2 and hygon specifically, which have the
 functionality but do not advertize the CPUID bit. Factor in the presence
 of a hypervisor underneath the kernel and avoid doing the explicit check
 there which the HV might've decided to not advertize for migration
 safety reasons, a.o.
 
 - Add support for a new X86 CPU vendor: VORTEX. Needed for whitelisting
 those CPUs in the hardware vulnerabilities detection
 
 - Force the compiler to use rIP-relative addressing in the fallback path of
 static_cpu_has(), in order to avoid unnecessary register pressure
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Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Start checking a CPUID bit on AMD Zen3 which states that the CPU
   clears the segment base when a null selector is written. Do the
   explicit detection on older CPUs, zen2 and hygon specifically, which
   have the functionality but do not advertize the CPUID bit. Factor in
   the presence of a hypervisor underneath the kernel and avoid doing
   the explicit check there which the HV might've decided to not
   advertize for migration safety reasons, or similar.

 - Add support for a new X86 CPU vendor: VORTEX. Needed for whitelisting
   those CPUs in the hardware vulnerabilities detection

 - Force the compiler to use rIP-relative addressing in the fallback
   path of static_cpu_has(), in order to avoid unnecessary register
   pressure

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/cpu: Fix migration safety with X86_BUG_NULL_SEL
  x86/CPU: Add support for Vortex CPUs
  x86/umip: Downgrade warning messages to debug loglevel
  x86/asm: Avoid adding register pressure for the init case in static_cpu_has()
  x86/asm: Add _ASM_RIP() macro for x86-64 (%rip) suffix
2021-11-01 15:33:54 -07:00
arch - Start checking a CPUID bit on AMD Zen3 which states that the CPU 2021-11-01 15:33:54 -07:00
block for-5.16/inode-sync-2021-10-29 2021-11-01 10:25:27 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto fs: get rid of the res2 iocb->ki_complete argument 2021-10-25 10:36:24 -06:00
Documentation x86/fpu updates: 2021-11-01 14:03:56 -07:00
drivers Add an interface called cc_platform_has() which is supposed to be used 2021-11-01 15:16:52 -07:00
fs Add an interface called cc_platform_has() which is supposed to be used 2021-11-01 15:16:52 -07:00
include The usual round of random minor fixes and cleanups all over the place. 2021-11-01 15:25:08 -07:00
init block: move elevator.h to block/ 2021-10-18 06:17:01 -06:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel Add an interface called cc_platform_has() which is supposed to be used 2021-11-01 15:16:52 -07:00
lib objtool updates: 2021-11-01 13:24:43 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm Locking updates: 2021-11-01 13:15:36 -07:00
net mptcp: fix corrupt receiver key in MPC + data + checksum 2021-10-28 08:19:06 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Relicense bpf_insn.h as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause 2021-09-29 16:03:55 +02:00
scripts x86/fpu updates: 2021-11-01 14:03:56 -07:00
security Merge branch 'ucount-fixes-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-10-21 17:27:17 -10:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix microphone sound on Jieli webcam. 2021-10-19 08:07:01 +02:00
tools x86/fpu updates: 2021-11-01 14:03:56 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add Andrej Shadura 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Locking updates: 2021-11-01 13:15:36 -07:00
Makefile for-5.16/block-2021-10-29 2021-11-01 09:19:50 -07:00
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