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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-08 20:10:58 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-08 20:10:58 +0200
commit410feb75de245664d66bc05ab2e2412751d10acf (patch)
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parentMerge tag 'dmaengine-4.18-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma (diff)
parentarm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer (diff)
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "Apart from the core arm64 and perf changes, the Spectre v4 mitigation touches the arm KVM code and the ACPI PPTT support touches drivers/ (acpi and cacheinfo). I should have the maintainers' acks in place. Summary: - Spectre v4 mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) support for arm64 using SMC firmware call to set a hardware chicken bit - ACPI PPTT (Processor Properties Topology Table) parsing support and enable the feature for arm64 - Report signal frame size to user via auxv (AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). The primary motivation is Scalable Vector Extensions which requires more space on the signal frame than the currently defined MINSIGSTKSZ - ARM perf patches: allow building arm-cci as module, demote dev_warn() to dev_dbg() in arm-ccn event_init(), miscellaneous cleanups - cmpwait() WFE optimisation to avoid some spurious wakeups - L1_CACHE_BYTES reverted back to 64 (for performance reasons that have to do with some network allocations) while keeping ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128. cache_line_size() returns the actual hardware Cache Writeback Granule - Turn LSE atomics on by default in Kconfig - Kernel fault reporting tidying - Some #include and miscellaneous cleanups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (53 commits) arm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection ACPI / PPTT: fix build when CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT is not enabled arm64: cpu_errata: include required headers arm64: KVM: Move VCPU_WORKAROUND_2_FLAG macros to the top of the file arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1 ...
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@@ -4106,6 +4106,23 @@
expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
expediting.
+ ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
+ Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
+
+ On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
+ Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
+ firmware based mitigation, this parameter
+ indicates how the mitigation should be used:
+
+ force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
+ for both kernel and userspace
+ force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
+ for both kernel and userspace
+ kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
+ kernel, and offer a prctl interface
+ to allow userspace to register its
+ interest in being mitigated too.
+
stack_guard_gap= [MM]
override the default stack gap protection. The value
is in page units and it defines how many pages prior