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Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree includes:

   - a fix that disables the compacted FPU XSAVE format by disabling
     XSAVES support: the fixes are too complex and the breakages
     ABI-affecting, so we want this to be quirked off in a robust way
     and backported, to make sure no broken kernel is exposed to the new
     hardware (which exposure is still very limited).

   - an MCE printk message fix

   - a documentation fix"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu: Disable XSAVES* support for now
  x86/Documentation: Update the contact email for L3 cache index disable functionality
  x86/mce: Fix MCE severity messages
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Linus Torvalds 2015-05-27 11:00:50 -07:00
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
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@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Description: Discover CPUs in the same CPU frequency coordination domain
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1}
Date: August 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: discuss@x86-64.org
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Disable L3 cache indices
These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
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@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int i, ret = 0;
char *tmp;
for (i = 0; i < mca_cfg.banks; i++) {
m->status = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCx_STATUS(i));
@ -716,9 +717,11 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp,
if (quirk_no_way_out)
quirk_no_way_out(i, m, regs);
}
if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, msg, true) >=
MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY)
if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, &tmp, true) >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) {
*msg = tmp;
ret = 1;
}
}
return ret;
}

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arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
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@ -173,6 +173,21 @@ static void init_thread_xstate(void)
xstate_size = sizeof(struct i387_fxsave_struct);
else
xstate_size = sizeof(struct i387_fsave_struct);
/*
* Quirk: we don't yet handle the XSAVES* instructions
* correctly, as we don't correctly convert between
* standard and compacted format when interfacing
* with user-space - so disable it for now.
*
* The difference is small: with recent CPUs the
* compacted format is only marginally smaller than
* the standard FPU state format.
*
* ( This is easy to backport while we are fixing
* XSAVES* support. )
*/
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
}
/*