linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds 40548c6b6c Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
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ABI Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
EDID drm: use .hword to represent 16-bit numbers 2017-03-30 10:15:19 +02:00
PCI docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
RCU Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:18:10 -08:00
accounting
acpi ACPI / LPIT: Add Low Power Idle Table (LPIT) support 2017-10-11 15:38:10 +02:00
admin-guide Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
aoe
arm ARM: sunxi: add support for R40 SoC 2017-09-22 21:57:09 +02:00
arm64 arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041 2017-12-12 11:45:19 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
blockdev SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
bpf bpf: document answers to common questions about BPF 2017-11-01 21:01:47 +09:00
bus-devices
cdrom documentation: Update ide-cd documentation to reflect CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE removal 2017-10-12 11:25:31 -06:00
cgroup-v1 mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api genericirq.rst: Remove :c:func:`...` in code blocks 2017-12-02 08:41:46 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: stats: Handle the case when trans_table goes beyond PAGE_SIZE 2017-11-08 23:41:25 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto crypto: doc - adapt api sample to use async. op wait 2017-11-03 22:11:23 +08:00
dev-tools Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
device-mapper dm raid: fix incorrect status output at the end of a "recover" process 2017-10-05 16:21:30 -04:00
devicetree sound fixes for 4.15-rc6 2017-12-27 12:59:27 -08:00
doc-guide Documentation: fix ref to sphinx/kerneldoc.py 2017-10-19 12:57:10 -06:00
driver-api Documentation: fix docs build error after source file removed 2017-12-03 15:11:45 -07:00
driver-model We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
early-userspace Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org 2017-03-29 15:46:06 -06:00
extcon extcon: Remove porting compatibility of swich class 2017-04-06 10:55:24 +09:00
fault-injection cpu/hotplug: Get rid of CPU hotplug notifier leftovers 2017-11-13 10:03:53 +01:00
fb documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts 2017-11-08 03:39:52 -07:00
features Documentation/features/KASAN: mark KASAN as supported only on 64-bit on x86 2017-10-03 14:40:22 -06:00
filesystems MAINTAINERS, nilfs2: change project home URLs 2018-01-13 10:42:48 -08:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga
frv
gpio Merge branch 'gpio-irqchip-rework' of /home/linus/linux-gpio into devel 2017-11-09 09:38:42 +01:00
gpu docs: fix, intel_guc_loader.c has been moved to intel_guc_fw.c 2018-01-02 17:21:51 +02:00
hid Documentation: fix input related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:14:06 -06:00
hwmon pmbus: Add driver for Maxim MAX31785 Intelligent Fan Controller 2017-11-05 06:06:33 -08:00
i2c i2c: i801: Add support for Intel Cedar Fork 2017-10-05 14:44:56 +02:00
ia64 kbuild: /bin/pwd -> pwd 2017-11-18 11:32:27 +09:00
ide
iio iio: adc: New driver for Cirrus Logic EP93xx ADC 2017-07-25 19:56:23 +01:00
infiniband Documentation: Hardware tag matching 2017-08-29 08:30:21 -04:00
input Documentation: fix input related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:14:06 -06:00
ioctl scsi: cxlflash: Introduce host ioctl support 2017-06-26 15:01:11 -04:00
isdn
kbuild kconfig: fix relational operators for bool and tristate symbols 2018-01-06 02:31:23 +09:00
kdump kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
kernel-hacking There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time 2017-07-03 21:13:25 -07:00
laptops Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refs 2017-10-12 11:13:28 -06:00
leds Documentation: leds: Update 00-INDEX file 2017-10-23 20:17:03 +02:00
lightnvm lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target 2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00
livepatch livepatch: add (un)patch callbacks 2017-10-19 10:08:56 +02:00
locking locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks 2017-12-12 12:38:51 +01:00
m68k
md md-cluster: update document for raid10 2017-11-01 21:32:25 -07:00
media media: docs: add documentation for frontend attach info 2017-11-30 04:19:04 -05:00
memory-devices
metag
mic
mips
misc-devices Documentation: misc-devices: Add Documentation for pci-endpoint-test driver 2017-04-28 10:23:19 -05:00
mmc MMC core: 2017-05-02 17:34:32 -07:00
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking doc: clarification about setting SO_ZEROCOPY 2018-01-10 15:01:49 -05:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem NVMEM documentation fix: A minor typo 2017-08-24 13:31:58 -06:00
openrisc Documentation: openrisc: Updates to README 2017-10-30 21:37:53 +09:00
parisc
pcmcia
perf Documentation: perf: hisi: Documentation for HiSilicon SoC PMU driver 2017-10-19 17:06:34 +01:00
phy
platform
power PM / runtime: Drop children check from __pm_runtime_set_status() 2017-11-16 22:51:22 +01:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 4.13 2017-07-07 13:55:45 -07:00
pps drivers/pps: aesthetic tweaks to PPS-related content 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
process A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's 2017-11-23 21:01:32 -10:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
s390 docs: add documentation for vfio-ccw 2017-03-31 12:55:11 +02:00
scheduler sched/deadline: Fix the description of runtime accounting in the documentation 2017-11-16 09:00:35 +01:00
scsi scsi: documentation: Fix case of 'scsi_device' struct mention(s) 2017-12-02 08:43:43 -07:00
security KEYS: fix in-kernel documentation for keyctl_read() 2017-11-15 16:38:44 +00:00
serial tty: n_gsm: do not send/receive in ldisc close path 2017-06-03 18:48:52 +09:00
sh docs-rst: convert sh book to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:18 -03:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
sparc Documentation/sparc: Steps for sending break on sunhv console 2017-02-23 08:27:25 -08:00
sphinx Documentation/sphinx: fix kernel-doc decode for non-utf-8 locale 2017-08-31 13:36:28 -06:00
sphinx-static docs RTD theme: code-block with line nos - lines and line numbers don't line up. 2017-07-17 13:48:45 -06:00
spi spi: Document SPI slave controller support 2017-05-26 13:11:00 +01:00
sysctl Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
target Documentation/target: add an example script to configure an iSCSI target 2017-05-01 22:21:35 -07:00
thermal Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2017-05-12 11:58:45 -07:00
timers docs: highres: fix broken urls 2017-09-26 14:58:23 -06:00
trace Char/Misc patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 09:10:59 -08:00
translations A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's 2017-11-23 21:01:32 -10:00
usb Documentation: usb: fix typo in UVC gadgetfs config command 2018-01-11 18:39:52 +01:00
userspace-api seccomp: Implement SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS action 2017-08-14 13:46:50 -07:00
virtual KVM: s390: mark irq_state.flags as non-usable 2017-12-06 09:18:43 +01:00
vm Documentation/vm/zswap.txt: update with same-value filled page feature 2017-12-14 16:00:48 -08:00
w1 add w1_ds28e17 driver for the DS28E17 Onewire to I2C master bridge 2017-10-04 10:29:22 +02:00
watchdog Documentation: fix selftests related file refs 2017-10-19 12:58:21 -06:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
xtensa of: update ePAPR references to point to Devicetree Specification 2017-06-22 11:22:06 -05:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update 2017-07-07 14:04:47 -07:00
Changes
CodingStyle
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:32 -06:00
DMA-API.txt dma-coherent: remove the DMA_MEMORY_MAP and DMA_MEMORY_IO flags 2017-09-01 11:59:17 +02:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt DMA-ISA-LPC.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
DMA-attributes.txt DMA-attributes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
IPMI.txt ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available 2017-09-27 16:03:45 -05:00
IRQ-affinity.txt IRQ-affinity.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ-domain.txt IRQ-domain.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ.txt IRQ.txt: add a markup for its title 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt Intel-IOMMU.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
Makefile Documentation: add script and build target to check for broken file references 2017-10-12 11:07:42 -06:00
SAK.txt SAK.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
SM501.txt SM501.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
SubmittingPatches
atomic_bitops.txt Documentation/locking/atomic: Add documents for new atomic_t APIs 2017-08-10 12:29:00 +02:00
atomic_t.txt Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document... 2017-08-25 11:06:33 +02:00
bcache.txt bcache.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bt8xxgpio.txt bt8xxgpio.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
btmrvl.txt btmrvl.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cachetlb.txt cachetlb.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup: add warning about RT not being supported on cgroup2 2017-12-05 11:47:17 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt circular-buffers.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
clearing-warn-once.txt kernel debug: support resetting WARN*_ONCE 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
clk.txt clk.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
conf.py docs-rst: don't require adjustbox anymore 2017-09-08 10:02:55 -06:00
cpu-load.txt cpu-load: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
cputopology.txt cputopology.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
crc32.txt crc32.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
dcdbas.txt dcdbas.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
dell_rbu.txt dell_rbu.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:12 -06:00
digsig.txt digsig.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
docutils.conf
dontdiff Remove gperf usage from toolchain 2017-08-19 11:02:53 -07:00
efi-stub.txt efi-stub.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
eisa.txt eisa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
errseq.rst Documentation: add some docs for errseq_t 2017-07-29 09:01:02 -04:00
flexible-arrays.txt flexible-arrays.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex-requeue-pi.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
gcc-plugins.txt gcc-plugins.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
highuid.txt highuid.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
hw_random.txt hw_random.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
hwspinlock.txt hwspinlock.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
index.rst Make the main documentation title less Geocities 2017-06-23 14:02:27 -06:00
intel_txt.txt intel_txt.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
io-mapping.txt io-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
io_ordering.txt io_ordering.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:39 -06:00
iostats.txt iostats.txt: update it to cover recent Kernels 2017-07-14 13:51:40 -06:00
irqflags-tracing.txt irqflags-tracing.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
isa.txt isa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
isapnp.txt isapnp.txt: promote title level 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kobject.txt kobject.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:44 -06:00
kprobes.txt kprobes/docs: Remove jprobes related documents 2017-10-20 11:02:55 +02:00
kref.txt kref.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
ldm.txt ldm.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt lockup-watchdogs.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lsm.txt docs-rst: convert lsm from DocBook to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
lzo.txt lzo.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
mailbox.txt mailbox.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:47 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:38:26 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:53 -06:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt men-chameleon-bus.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:54 -06:00
nommu-mmap.txt nommu-mmap.txt: don't use all upper case on titles 2017-07-14 13:57:55 -06:00
ntb.txt This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format 2017-07-15 12:58:58 -07:00
numastat.txt numastat.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
padata.txt padata.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
parport-lowlevel.txt parport-lowlevel.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:57 -06:00
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt percpu-rw-semaphore.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
phy.txt phy.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
pi-futex.txt Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs 2017-10-19 12:56:44 -06:00
pnp.txt pnp.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:59 -06:00
preempt-locking.txt preempt-locking.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:00 -06:00
printk-formats.txt vsprintf: add printk specifier %px 2017-11-29 12:13:14 +11:00
pwm.txt pwm: Standardize document format 2017-07-06 08:23:30 +02:00
rbtree.txt rbtree: cache leftmost node internally 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
rfkill.txt rfkill.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt robust-futex-ABI.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
robust-futexes.txt robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
rpmsg.txt rpmsg.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
rtc.txt rtc: add generic nvmem support 2017-07-07 13:14:14 +02:00
sgi-ioc4.txt sgi-ioc4.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:05 -06:00
siphash.txt siphash.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
smsc_ece1099.txt smsc_ece1099.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:07 -06:00
static-keys.txt jump_label: Provide hotplug context variants 2017-08-10 12:28:59 +02:00
svga.txt documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file 2017-11-20 10:45:50 -07:00
switchtec.txt NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation with notes for NTB 2017-11-18 20:37:13 -05:00
sync_file.txt sync_file.txt: standardize document format 2017-05-24 13:01:27 -03:00
tee.txt tee.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:14 -06:00
this_cpu_ops.txt this_cpu_ops.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:08 -06:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt unaligned-memory-access.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:09 -06:00
vfio-mediated-device.txt vfio-mediated-device.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:10 -06:00
vfio.txt vfio.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:10 -06:00
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt xillybus.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:11 -06:00
xz.txt xz.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:11 -06:00
zorro.txt zorro.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:12 -06:00