This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.75-rc1
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org KPTI: Report when enabled
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org KPTI: Rename to PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Move feature detection up
Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz kaiser: disabled on Xen PV
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Reenable PARAVIRT
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user() check PCID
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: asm/tlbflush.h handle noPGE at lower level
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: drop is_atomic arg to kaiser_pagetable_walk()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: use ALTERNATIVE instead of x86_cr3_pcid_noflush
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Check boottime cmdline params
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/kaiser: Rename and simplify X86_FEATURE_KAISER handling
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: add "nokaiser" boot option, using ALTERNATIVE
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: kaiser_remove_mapping() move along the pgd
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: paranoid_entry pass cr3 need to paranoid_exit
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: x86_cr3_pcid_noflush and x86_cr3_pcid_user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: PCID 0 for kernel and 128 for user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: load_new_mm_cr3() let SWITCH_USER_CR3 flush user
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: enhanced by kernel and user PCIDs
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: delete KAISER_REAL_SWITCH option
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: align addition to x86/mm/Makefile
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: tidied up kaiser_add/remove_mapping slightly
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix perf crashes
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix regs to do_nmi() ifndef CONFIG_KAISER
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: KAISER depends on SMP
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com kaiser: do not set _PAGE_NX on pgd_none
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com kaiser: merged update
Richard Fellner richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation
Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/boot: Add early cmdline parsing for options with arguments
Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com tcp_bbr: reset long-term bandwidth sampling on loss recovery undo
Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com tcp_bbr: reset full pipe detection on loss recovery undo
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 1 + arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 163 ++++++++-- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 8 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 57 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/cmdline.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 4 + arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 141 +++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 28 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 25 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 29 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 74 ++++- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 28 +- arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 10 + arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 35 ++- arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 25 +- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 + arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +- arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 105 +++++++ arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 + arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 454 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 63 +++- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 12 +- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 39 ++- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 7 + include/linux/kaiser.h | 52 ++++ include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +- include/linux/percpu-defs.h | 32 +- init/main.c | 2 + kernel/fork.c | 6 + mm/vmstat.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 5 + security/Kconfig | 10 + tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 + 46 files changed, 1382 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
On 4 January 2018 at 01:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
Results from Linaro’s test farm. No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.
Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel: 4.9.75-rc1 git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git git branch: linux-4.9.y git commit: d88d440098ee3b1a6004fc6ed442e5cc6f9befca git describe: v4.9.74-40-gd88d440098ee Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.74-40-g...
No regressions (compared to build v4.9.74-38-g8cb1a8d5571f)
Boards, architectures and test suites: -------------------------------------
hi6220-hikey - arm64 * boot - pass: 20, * kselftest - pass: 40, skip: 23 * libhugetlbfs - pass: 90, skip: 1 * ltp-cap_bounds-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-containers-tests - pass: 64, * ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-filecaps-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs-tests - pass: 60, * ltp-fs_bind-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests - pass: 19, * ltp-fsx-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-hugetlb-tests - pass: 21, skip: 1 * ltp-io-tests - pass: 3, * ltp-ipc-tests - pass: 9, * ltp-math-tests - pass: 11, * ltp-nptl-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-pty-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-sched-tests - pass: 14, * ltp-securebits-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-syscalls-tests - pass: 983, skip: 121 * ltp-timers-tests - pass: 12,
juno-r2 - arm64 * boot - pass: 20, * kselftest - pass: 40, skip: 23 * libhugetlbfs - pass: 90, skip: 1 * ltp-cap_bounds-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-containers-tests - pass: 64, * ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-filecaps-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs_bind-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests - pass: 19, * ltp-fsx-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-hugetlb-tests - pass: 22, * ltp-io-tests - pass: 3, * ltp-ipc-tests - pass: 9, * ltp-math-tests - pass: 11, * ltp-nptl-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-pty-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-sched-tests - pass: 14, * ltp-securebits-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-syscalls-tests - pass: 987, skip: 121 * ltp-timers-tests - pass: 12,
x15 - arm * boot - pass: 20, * kselftest - pass: 37, skip: 25 * libhugetlbfs - pass: 87, skip: 1 * ltp-cap_bounds-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-containers-tests - pass: 64, * ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-filecaps-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs-tests - pass: 60, * ltp-fs_bind-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests - pass: 19, * ltp-fsx-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-hugetlb-tests - pass: 20, skip: 2 * ltp-io-tests - pass: 3, * ltp-ipc-tests - pass: 9, * ltp-math-tests - pass: 11, * ltp-nptl-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-pty-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-sched-tests - pass: 13, skip: 1 * ltp-securebits-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-syscalls-tests - pass: 1037, skip: 66 * ltp-timers-tests - pass: 12,
x86_64 * boot - pass: 20, * kselftest - pass: 53, skip: 24 * libhugetlbfs - pass: 90, skip: 1 * ltp-cap_bounds-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-containers-tests - pass: 63, * ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-filecaps-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs-tests - pass: 61, skip: 1 * ltp-fs_bind-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests - pass: 19, * ltp-fsx-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-hugetlb-tests - pass: 22, * ltp-io-tests - pass: 3, * ltp-ipc-tests - pass: 9, * ltp-math-tests - pass: 11, * ltp-nptl-tests - pass: 2, * ltp-pty-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-sched-tests - pass: 9, skip: 1 * ltp-securebits-tests - pass: 4, * ltp-syscalls-tests - pass: 1014, skip: 116 * ltp-timers-tests - pass: 12,
Documentation - https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/LKFT/Email+Reports Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju naresh.kamboju@linaro.org
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:31:49PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
On 4 January 2018 at 01:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
Results from Linaro’s test farm. No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.
Thanks for testing both of these and letting me know.
greg k-h
stable-rc/linux-4.9.y boot: 110 boots: 3 failed, 107 passed (v4.9.74-40-gd88d440098ee)
Full Boot Summary: https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.9.y/kernel/v4.9.7... Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.9.y/kernel/v4.9.74-40-gd...
Tree: stable-rc Branch: linux-4.9.y Git Describe: v4.9.74-40-gd88d440098ee Git Commit: d88d440098ee3b1a6004fc6ed442e5cc6f9befca Git URL: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Tested: 60 unique boards, 20 SoC families, 17 builds out of 183
Boot Regressions Detected:
arm:
multi_v7_defconfig: armada-xp-linksys-mamba: lab-free-electrons: new failure (last pass: v4.9.74-38-g8cb1a8d5571f) tegra124-nyan-big: lab-collabora: failing since 1 day (last pass: v4.9.73-77-g79070be7f1ae - first fail: v4.9.74)
tegra_defconfig: tegra124-nyan-big: lab-collabora: failing since 1 day (last pass: v4.9.73-77-g79070be7f1ae - first fail: v4.9.74)
Boot Failures Detected:
arm:
multi_v7_defconfig armada-xp-linksys-mamba: 1 failed lab tegra124-nyan-big: 1 failed lab
tegra_defconfig tegra124-nyan-big: 1 failed lab
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kernelci.org bot bot@kernelci.org writes:
stable-rc/linux-4.9.y boot: 110 boots: 3 failed, 107 passed (v4.9.74-40-gd88d440098ee)
Full Boot Summary: https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.9.y/kernel/v4.9.7... Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/branch/linux-4.9.y/kernel/v4.9.74-40-gd...
Tree: stable-rc Branch: linux-4.9.y Git Describe: v4.9.74-40-gd88d440098ee Git Commit: d88d440098ee3b1a6004fc6ed442e5cc6f9befca Git URL: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Tested: 60 unique boards, 20 SoC families, 17 builds out of 183
TL;DR: All is well.
Issues below are same as summarized for stable-rc/linux-4.4.y.
Boot Regressions Detected:
arm:
multi_v7_defconfig: armada-xp-linksys-mamba: lab-free-electrons: new failure (last pass: v4.9.74-38-g8cb1a8d5571f) tegra124-nyan-big: lab-collabora: failing since 1 day (last pass: v4.9.73-77-g79070be7f1ae - first fail: v4.9.74) tegra_defconfig: tegra124-nyan-big: lab-collabora: failing since 1 day (last pass: v4.9.73-77-g79070be7f1ae - first fail: v4.9.74)
Kevin
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:11:14PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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.
For v4.9.74-40-gd88d440:
Build results: total: 145 pass: 145 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 126 pass: 126 fail: 0
Details are available at http://kerneltests.org/builders.
Guenter
On 01/03/2018 01:11 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
Based on the email threads, I expected to see issues, however, compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
thanks, -- Shuah
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
This patchset merges correctly with Gentoo patches / GCC 6.4.0 and the kernel boot up correctly. https://github.com/gentoo/linux-patches/tree/4.9_001 http://kernel1.amd64.dev.gentoo.org:8010/#/builders/3/builds/47
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:23:48PM +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote:
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.75 release. There are 39 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 Jan 5 19:50:44 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.75-rc1.gz 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
This patchset merges correctly with Gentoo patches / GCC 6.4.0 and the kernel boot up correctly. https://github.com/gentoo/linux-patches/tree/4.9_001 http://kernel1.amd64.dev.gentoo.org:8010/#/builders/3/builds/47
Great, thanks for testing and letting me know.
greg k-h
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