This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.310 release.
There are 43 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.
Responses should be made by Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:24:27 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.310-rc…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.9.310-rc1
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: Use the clearbhb instruction in mitigations
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: add ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 sys register
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
KVM: arm64: Allow SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_3 to be discovered and migrated
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: Mitigate spectre style branch history side channels
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
KVM: arm64: Add templates for BHB mitigation sequences
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add percpu vectors for EL1
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Add macro for reading symbol addresses from the trampoline
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Add vectors that have the bhb mitigation sequences
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: Move arm64_update_smccc_conduit() out of SSBD ifdef
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Add non-kpti __bp_harden_el1_vectors for mitigations
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Allow the trampoline text to occupy multiple pages
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Make the kpti trampoline's kpti sequence optional
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Move trampoline macros out of ifdef'd section
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Don't assume tramp_vectors is the start of the vectors
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Allow tramp_alias to access symbols after the 4K boundary
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Move the trampoline data page before the text page
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Free up another register on kpti's tramp_exit path
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry: Make the trampoline cleanup optional
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: entry.S: Add ventry overflow sanity checks
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add helper to decode register from instruction
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add Cortex-X2 CPU part definition
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
Rob Herring <robh(a)kernel.org>
arm64: Add part number for Arm Cortex-A77
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add part number for Neoverse N1
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: Make ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 depend on COMPAT
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add silicon-errata.txt entry for ARM erratum 1188873
Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de>
arm64: arch_timer: avoid unused function warning
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: arch_timer: Add workaround for ARM erratum 1188873
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: arch_timer: Add erratum handler for CPU-specific capability
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier(a)arm.com>
arm64: arch_timer: Add infrastructure for multiple erratum detection methods
Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong(a)huawei.com>
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Introduce generic errata handling infrastructure
Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong(a)huawei.com>
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove fsl-a008585 parameter
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Add flags to handle the conflicts on late CPU
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Prepare for fine grained capabilities
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Move errata processing code
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Move errata work around check on boot CPU
Dave Martin <dave.martin(a)arm.com>
arm64: capabilities: Update prototype for enable call back
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose(a)arm.com>
arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
James Morse <james.morse(a)arm.com>
arm64: Remove useless UAO IPI and describe how this gets enabled
Robert Richter <rrichter(a)cavium.com>
arm64: errata: Provide macro for major and minor cpu revisions
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Diffstat:
Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 +
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 -
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 +
arch/arm/kvm/psci.c | 4 +
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 24 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 44 ++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 34 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 4 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 232 ++++++++++++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 63 ++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h | 8 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h | 6 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 5 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h | 74 +++++
arch/arm64/kernel/bpi.S | 55 +++
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 591 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 167 +++++++---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 197 ++++++++---
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 29 ++
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 6 -
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S | 4 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 9 +-
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 17 +-
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 11 +-
drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 4 +
drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 192 ++++++++---
include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 7 +
38 files changed, 1504 insertions(+), 331 deletions(-)