linux/Documentation/x86
Linus Torvalds 40548c6b6c Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
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i386 doc: spelling error changes 2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00
x86_64 x86/kaslr: Fix the vaddr_end mess 2018-01-05 00:39:57 +01:00
00-INDEX Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
amd-memory-encryption.txt Documentation/x86: Add AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) description 2017-11-07 15:35:54 +01:00
boot.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
earlyprintk.txt doc: spelling error changes 2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00
entry_64.txt x86/asm/entry/64: Update path names 2015-07-02 11:08:50 +02:00
exception-tables.txt x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options 2016-02-18 09:21:46 +01:00
intel_mpx.txt x86/Documentation: Fix various typos in Documentation/x86/ files 2016-07-01 10:00:10 +02:00
intel_rdt_ui.txt x86/intel_rdt: Add documentation for "info/last_cmd_status" 2017-09-27 12:10:11 +02:00
kernel-stacks Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZE 2015-08-24 11:42:41 -06:00
microcode.txt x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods 2017-07-25 11:26:24 +02:00
mtrr.txt x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del() 2015-08-28 10:09:28 +02:00
orc-unwinder.txt x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-10-14 10:12:12 +02:00
pat.txt x86/pat: Document the PAT initialization sequence 2016-03-29 12:23:27 +02:00
protection-keys.txt x86/pkeys: Update documentation about availability 2017-11-21 09:34:52 +01:00
pti.txt x86/Documentation: Add PTI description 2018-01-06 21:39:10 +01:00
tlb.txt x86/Documentation: Fix various typos in Documentation/x86/ files 2016-07-01 10:00:10 +02:00
topology.txt x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id 2016-12-20 09:36:29 +01:00
usb-legacy-support.txt x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386 2008-07-22 15:34:38 -04:00
zero-page.txt Merge branch 'linus' into WIP.x86/boot, to fix up conflicts and to pick up updates 2017-03-01 09:02:26 +01:00