This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

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From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:30 +0100 Subject: x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single

From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de

commit a035795499ca1c2bd1928808d1a156eda1420383 upstream

native_flush_tlb_single() will be changed with the upcoming PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION feature. This requires to have more code in there than INVLPG.

Remove the paravirt patching for it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Borislav Petkov bpetkov@suse.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.828111617@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Acked-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ DEF_NATIVE(pv_irq_ops, save_fl, "pushfq; DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr2, "movq %cr2, %rax"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr3, "movq %cr3, %rax"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, write_cr3, "movq %rdi, %cr3"); -DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, flush_tlb_single, "invlpg (%rdi)"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, clts, "clts"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, wbinvd, "wbinvd");

@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ unsigned native_patch(u8 type, u16 clobb PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr3); PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, write_cr3); PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, clts); - PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, flush_tlb_single); PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, wbinvd); #if defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) case PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock):

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are

queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.9/x86-boot-add-early-cmdline-parsing-for-options-with-arguments.patch