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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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEzv7L6UO9uDPlPSfHEsHwGGHeVUoFAmF/wRgACgkQEsHwGGHe VUoGQBAAk9V9//FMoENuGFGul/IK8+VBibTfztYgaPvm7vjMDYaYuRBCQiZg5Y8U D14pwkg7CuRa6iwZmrk/X/y6FVjo5BJA//ROk/n/9JNvV5QUp3/o00uLiziv80K3 H6Wm3PUyGgkpBuJg+/K8SLE9UQ6uSh4nsykS+70Dcd45DtkC/vH8pkDs5Q1fVQwb 7AuOuWTCWKUYOMFYWFI3a9D8tZYhg99ABREbXBaJGiGdIlZKNVe/7W8qQw5s6cVA cD5Q2ILY2RCGP55ZQiWoFy3XNP3/ygvZ7Zm1ARYUvUMR2Y5X2XJWN/B6oMbc0oEu OZsDDA/ILYcah9eBV/zk4ON/1djksp1iWNXNxjct0cNBPAKxi6T/HhHuIHBtzvW+ zDyBWUMLlv1m2i1oW4J4NuNJJi9Gaz+7PesmI7C0OQPgywR8UqqfMD+TzlEHWya1 YqYqI0f3aiyC/sLjUp3GSA7a9sWSd3BZfyAlLBJZCxyXAxX92tXX5BRPh/KYbnJn c/NaYA6X4m4Rdvr0gKKtCklaC6w4GLzVak6wIvftzHlUYsWX21BhnTkQrciKbqc+ AKWed41AO+4pDHROePxc409x3UZolti+1RandikrztIVAolVJ6W/OkHWxXfy28Fg iSrtl4M3omv8fCHDaJ26STrXqxH8pIK8noVolwQoXKyAFVyvXTk= =rlVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.