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Linus Torvalds 685d982112 Core x86 changes for v6.9:
- The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code,
   to support the 'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature,
   by Uros Bizjak:
 
    - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative
      memory via variables declared with such attributes,
      which allows the compiler to better optimize those accesses
      than the previous inline assembly code.
 
    - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations
      for various percpu access methods, plus a number of
      cleanups of %gs accesses in assembly code.
 
    - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for
      the last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.
 
 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally
   working handling of FPU switching - which also generates
   better code.
 
 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code,
   to generate slightly better code.
 
 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic,
   to make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options.
 
 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and
   to clean up the logic.
 
 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic.
 
 - Misc cleanups and fixes.
 
 [ Please note that there's a higher number of merge commits in
   this branch (three) than is usual in x86 topic trees. This happened
   due to the long testing lifecycle of the percpu changes that
   involved 3 merge windows, which generated a longer history
   and various interactions with other core x86 changes that we
   felt better about to carry in a single branch. ]
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       => CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      => CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
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ABI Char/Misc changes for 6.8-rc5 2024-02-17 08:52:38 -08:00
accel docs/accel: correct links to mailing list archives 2024-01-23 14:45:50 -07:00
accounting
admin-guide Core x86 changes for v6.9: 2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
arch Core x86 changes for v6.9: 2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
block Documentation: block: ioprio: Update schedulers 2024-01-18 08:21:14 -07:00
bpf Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
cdrom
core-api workqueue: Changes for v6.9 2024-03-11 12:50:42 -07:00
cpu-freq
crypto Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
dev-tools linux_kselftest-next-6.9-rc1 2024-03-11 09:25:33 -07:00
devicetree Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-03-11 13:50:30 -07:00
doc-guide
driver-api dpll: move all dpll<>netdev helpers to dpll code 2024-03-05 18:36:42 -08:00
fault-injection
fb fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver 2024-01-12 12:38:37 +01:00
features riscv: Add support for BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH 2024-01-11 08:01:53 -08:00
filesystems vfs-6.9.ntfs 2024-03-11 09:55:17 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide
fpga
gpu amd-drm-next-6.8-2024-01-05: 2024-01-09 09:07:50 +10:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (lm75) Add AMS AS6200 temperature sensor 2024-01-02 08:44:57 -08:00
i2c Documentation/i2c: fix spelling error in i2c-address-translators 2023-12-27 20:05:44 +01:00
iio
images
infiniband
input
isdn
kbuild docs: kconfig: Fix grammar and formatting 2024-02-15 06:55:47 +09:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object after it's unlocked 2024-01-08 09:55:31 +01:00
maintainer
mhi
misc-devices
mm mm/rmap: rename COMPOUND_MAPPED to ENTIRELY_MAPPED 2023-12-29 11:58:56 -08:00
netlabel
netlink dpll: fix possible deadlock during netlink dump operation 2024-02-08 18:29:21 -08:00
networking Documentations: correct net_cachelines title for struct inet_sock 2024-02-28 11:25:37 +00:00
nvdimm
nvme
PCI docs: PCI: Fix typos 2023-12-28 17:37:36 -06:00
pcmcia
peci
power
process - Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes (or 2024-03-11 18:02:44 -07:00
RCU doc: Update checklist.rst discussion of callback execution 2024-02-14 07:53:50 -08:00
rust docs: rust: Add description of Rust documentation test as KUnit ones 2024-02-18 21:22:27 +01:00
scheduler sched/fair: Remove SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST_FASTUP, true) 2023-12-23 15:59:56 +01:00
scsi
security
sound
sphinx docs: translations: use attribute to store current language 2024-02-21 13:41:37 -07:00
sphinx-static
spi
staging rpmsg updates for v6.8 2024-01-17 15:05:27 -08:00
target
tee
timers
tools
trace tracing updates for 6.8: 2024-01-18 14:35:29 -08:00
translations A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes. 2024-01-17 11:49:11 -08:00
usb usb: gadget: ncm: Fix indentations in documentation of NCM section 2024-01-27 16:27:58 -08:00
userspace-api fs: FS_IOC_GETUUID 2024-02-08 21:20:11 +01:00
virt - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support. This will allow the 2024-03-11 17:44:11 -07:00
w1
watchdog
wmi
.gitignore
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
Changes
CodingStyle
conf.py docs: Instruct LaTeX to cope with deeper nesting 2024-02-20 14:51:42 -07:00
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dontdiff
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memory-barriers.txt
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