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Commit d6ec9d9a authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Note that in this cycle most of the x86 topics interacted at a level
  that caused them to be merged into tip:x86/asm - but this should be a
  temporary phenomenon, hopefully we'll back to the usual patterns in
  the next merge window.

  The main changes in this cycle were:

  Hardware enablement:

   - Add support for the Intel UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention)
     CPU feature. This is a security feature that disables certain
     instructions such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW and STR. (Ricardo Neri)

     [ Note that this is disabled by default for now, there are some
       smaller enhancements in the pipeline that I'll follow up with in
       the next 1-2 days, which allows this to be enabled by default.]

   - Add support for the AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) CPU
     feature, on top of SME (Secure Memory Encryption) support that was
     added in v4.14. (Tom Lendacky, Brijesh Singh)

   - Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 CPU features: AVX512_VBMI2, GFNI, VAES,
     VPCLMULQDQ, AVX512_VNNI, AVX512_BITALG. (Gayatri Kammela)

  Other changes:

   - A big series of entry code simplifications and enhancements (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - Make the ORC unwinder default on x86 and various objtool
     enhancements. (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - 5-level paging enhancements (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Micro-optimize the entry code a bit (Borislav Petkov)

   - Improve the handling of interdependent CPU features in the early
     FPU init code (Andi Kleen)

   - Build system enhancements (Changbin Du, Masahiro Yamada)

   - ... plus misc enhancements, fixes and cleanups"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits)
  x86/build: Make the boot image generation less verbose
  selftests/x86: Add tests for the STR and SLDT instructions
  selftests/x86: Add tests for User-Mode Instruction Prevention
  x86/traps: Fix up general protection faults caused by UMIP
  x86/umip: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention at runtime
  x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user
  x86/umip: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions
  x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions
  x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit address encodings
  x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode
  x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 32 and 64-bit addresses
  x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 32-bit address encodings
  x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions
  resource: Fix resource_size.cocci warnings
  X86/KVM: Clear encryption attribute when SEV is active
  X86/KVM: Decrypt shared per-cpu variables when SEV is active
  percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED
  x86: Add support for changing memory encryption attribute in early boot
  x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active
  x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active
  ...
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