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commit d0a8d9378d16eb3c69bd8e6d23779fbdbee3a8c7 upstream. native_save_fl() is marked static inline, but by using it as a function pointer in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c, it MUST be outlined. paravirt's use of native_save_fl() also requires that no GPRs other than %rax are clobbered. Compilers have different heuristics which they use to emit stack guard code, the emittance of which can break paravirt's callee saved assumption by clobbering %rcx. Marking a function definition extern inline means that if this version cannot be inlined, then the out-of-line version will be preferred. By having the out-of-line version be implemented in assembly, it cannot be instrumented with a stack protector, which might violate custom calling conventions that code like paravirt rely on. The semantics of extern inline has changed since gnu89. This means that folks using GCC versions >= 5.1 may see symbol redefinition errors at link time for subdirs that override KBUILD_CFLAGS (making the C standard used implicit) regardless of this patch. This has been cleaned up earlier in the patch set, but is left as a note in the commit message for future travelers. Reports: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/7/534 https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/16 Discussion: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37512 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/24/1371 Thanks to the many folks that participated in the discussion. Debugged-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com> Debugged-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Suggested-by: Tom Stellar <tstellar@redhat.com> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: akataria@vmware.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: astrachan@google.com Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com Cc: caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org Cc: ghackmann@google.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com Cc: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com Cc: joe@perches.com Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: kstewart@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: manojgupta@google.com Cc: mawilcox@microsoft.com Cc: michal.lkml@markovi.net Cc: mjg59@google.com Cc: mka@chromium.org Cc: pombredanne@nexb.com Cc: rientjes@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: tweek@google.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621162324.36656-4-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.