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<updated>2019-07-31T05:28:53Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>um: Silence lockdep complaint about mmap_sem</title>
<updated>2019-07-31T05:28:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2019-05-24T19:54:14Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 80bf6ceaf9310b3f61934c69b382d4912deee049 ]

When we get into activate_mm(), lockdep complains that we're doing
something strange:

    WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
    5.1.0-10252-gb00152307319-dirty #121 Not tainted
    ------------------------------------------------------
    inside.sh/366 is trying to acquire lock:
    (____ptrval____) (&amp;(&amp;p-&gt;alloc_lock)-&gt;rlock){+.+.}, at: flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7

    but task is already holding lock:
    (____ptrval____) (&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem){++++}, at: flush_old_exec+0x6c5/0x8d7

    which lock already depends on the new lock.

    the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

    -&gt; #1 (&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem){++++}:
           [...]
           __lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
           lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
           down_write+0x3f/0x98
           flush_old_exec+0x748/0x8d7
           load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
           [...]

    -&gt; #0 (&amp;(&amp;p-&gt;alloc_lock)-&gt;rlock){+.+.}:
           [...]
           __lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
           lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
           _raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x83
           flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7
           load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
           [...]

    other info that might help us debug this:

     Possible unsafe locking scenario:

           CPU0                    CPU1
           ----                    ----
      lock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
                                   lock(&amp;(&amp;p-&gt;alloc_lock)-&gt;rlock);
                                   lock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
      lock(&amp;(&amp;p-&gt;alloc_lock)-&gt;rlock);

     *** DEADLOCK ***

    2 locks held by inside.sh/366:
     #0: (____ptrval____) (&amp;sig-&gt;cred_guard_mutex){+.+.}, at: __do_execve_file+0x12d/0x869
     #1: (____ptrval____) (&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem){++++}, at: flush_old_exec+0x6c5/0x8d7

    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 0 PID: 366 Comm: inside.sh Not tainted 5.1.0-10252-gb00152307319-dirty #121
    Stack:
     [...]
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;600420de&gt;] show_stack+0x13b/0x155
     [&lt;6048906b&gt;] dump_stack+0x2a/0x2c
     [&lt;6009ae64&gt;] print_circular_bug+0x332/0x343
     [&lt;6009c5c6&gt;] check_prev_add+0x669/0xdad
     [&lt;600a06b4&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x12ab/0x139f
     [&lt;6009f3d0&gt;] lock_acquire+0x155/0x18e
     [&lt;604a07e0&gt;] _raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x83
     [&lt;60151e6a&gt;] flush_old_exec+0x703/0x8d7
     [&lt;601a8eb8&gt;] load_elf_binary+0x2ca/0xddb
     [...]

I think it's because in exec_mmap() we have

	down_read(&amp;old_mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
...
        task_lock(tsk);
...
	activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
	(which does down_write(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem))

I'm not really sure why lockdep throws in the whole knowledge
about the task lock, but it seems that old_mm and mm shouldn't
ever be the same (and it doesn't deadlock) so tell lockdep that
they're different.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Avoid marking pages with "changed protection"</title>
<updated>2019-02-12T18:46:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-05T12:37:41Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8892d8545f2d0342b9c550defbfb165db237044b ]

Changing protection is a very high cost operation in UML
because in addition to an extra syscall it also interrupts
mmap merge sequences generated by the tlb.

While the condition is not particularly common it is worth
avoiding.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch, mm: Allow arch_dup_mmap() to fail</title>
<updated>2017-12-29T16:53:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-14T11:27:29Z</published>
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commit c10e83f598d08046dd1ebc8360d4bb12d802d51b upstream.

In order to sanitize the LDT initialization on x86 arch_dup_mmap() must be
allowed to fail. Fix up all instances.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bpetkov@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eduardo Valentin &lt;eduval@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:26:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-24T10:22:46Z</published>
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commit d15155824c5014803d91b829736d249c500bdda6 upstream.

linux/compiler.h is included indirectly by linux/types.h via
uapi/linux/types.h -&gt; uapi/linux/posix_types.h -&gt; linux/stddef.h
-&gt; uapi/linux/stddef.h and is needed to provide a proper definition of
offsetof.

Unfortunately, compiler.h requires a definition of
smp_read_barrier_depends() for defining lockless_dereference() and soon
for defining READ_ONCE(), which means that all
users of READ_ONCE() will need to include asm/barrier.h to avoid splats
such as:

   In file included from include/uapi/linux/stddef.h:1:0,
                    from include/linux/stddef.h:4,
                    from arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c:11:
   include/linux/list.h: In function 'list_empty':
&gt;&gt; include/linux/compiler.h:343:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_read_barrier_depends' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Enforce dependency ordering from x */ \
     ^

A better alternative is to include asm/barrier.h in linux/compiler.h,
but this requires a type definition for "bool" on some architectures
(e.g. x86), which is defined later by linux/types.h. Type "bool" is also
used directly in linux/compiler.h, so the whole thing is pretty fragile.

This patch splits compiler.h in two: compiler_types.h contains type
annotations, definitions and the compiler-specific parts, whereas
compiler.h #includes compiler-types.h and additionally defines macros
such as {READ,WRITE.ACCESS}_ONCE().

uapi/linux/stddef.h and linux/linkage.h are then moved over to include
linux/compiler_types.h, which fixes the build for h8 and blackfin.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>bpf: fix build issues on um due to mising bpf_perf_event.h</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:26:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-12T01:25:31Z</published>
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commit ab95477e7cb35557ecfc837687007b646bab9a9f upstream.

[ Note, this is a Git cherry-pick of the following commit:

    a23f06f06dbe ("bpf: fix build issues on um due to mising bpf_perf_event.h")

  ... for easier x86 PTI code testing and back-porting. ]

Since c895f6f703ad ("bpf: correct broken uapi for
BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type") um (uml) won't build
on i386 or x86_64:

  [...]
    CC      init/main.o
  In file included from ../include/linux/perf_event.h:18:0,
                   from ../include/linux/trace_events.h:10,
                   from ../include/trace/syscall.h:7,
                   from ../include/linux/syscalls.h:82,
                   from ../init/main.c:20:
  ../include/uapi/linux/bpf_perf_event.h:11:32: fatal error:
  asm/bpf_perf_event.h: No such file or directory #include
  &lt;asm/bpf_perf_event.h&gt;
  [...]

Lets add missing bpf_perf_event.h also to um arch. This seems
to be the only one still missing.

Fixes: c895f6f703ad ("bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@sigma-star.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@sigma-star.at&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions</title>
<updated>2017-09-22T22:59:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T07:42:42Z</published>
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Some architectures define the no-op macros/functions copy_segments,
release_segments and forget_segments. These are used nowhere in the
tree, so removed them.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;   [for arch/arc]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml</title>
<updated>2017-09-16T19:03:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-16T19:03:25Z</published>
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - minor improvements

 - fixes for Debian's new gcc defaults (pie enabled by default)

 - fixes for XSTATE/XSAVE to make UML work again on modern systems

* 'for-linus-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: return negative in tuntap_open_tramp()
  um: remove a stray tab
  um: Use relative modversions with LD_SCRIPT_DYN
  um: link vmlinux with -no-pie
  um: Fix CONFIG_GCOV for modules.
  Fix minor typos and grammar in UML start_up help
  um: defconfig: Cleanup from old Kconfig options
  um: Fix FP register size for XSTATE/XSAVE
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<title>um: Fix FP register size for XSTATE/XSAVE</title>
<updated>2017-09-13T20:24:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Meyer</name>
<email>thomas@m3y3r.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-29T15:03:23Z</published>
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Hard code max size. Taken from
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/common/x86-xstate.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T16:52:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-09-04T16:52:57Z</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '&amp; 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
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