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Linus Torvalds 533b220f7b arm64 updates for 5.8
- Branch Target Identification (BTI)
 	* Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This
 	  allows branch targets to limit the types of branch from which
 	  they can be called and additionally prevents branching to
 	  arbitrary code, although kernel support requires a very recent
 	  toolchain.
 
 	* Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly
 	  functions are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad"
 	  instructions.
 
 	* BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.
 
 	* Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to
 	  userspace via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader
 	  support for the BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.
 
 	* Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
 	  trampoline.
 
 - Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
 	* Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
 	  platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each
 	  task that holds only return addresses. This protects function
 	  return control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.
 
 	* Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
 	  hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).
 
 	* Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
 	  too.
 
 	* SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
 	  stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.
 
 - CPU feature detection
 	* Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
 	  with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a
 	  concern for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on
 	  such a system.
 
 	* Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
 	  been extended.
 
 - Perf and PMU drivers
 	* Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.
 
 - Hardware errata
 	* Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.
 
 	* Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.
 
 - Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC)
 	* Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).
 
 	* Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.
 
 - Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)
 	* Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.
 
 	* Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.
 
 - Pointer authentication
 	* Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so
 	  that the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.
 
 	* Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.
 
 - BPF backend
 	* Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub
 	  instructions.
 
 - vDSO
 	- Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
 	  architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.
 
 	- Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.
 
 - ACPI
 	- Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating
 	  to the "num_ids" field.
 
 	- Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only
 	  PCIe root complexes.
 
 	- Minor other IORT-related fixes.
 
 - Miscellaneous
 	* Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
 	  deadlock.
 
 	* Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
 	  TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).
 
 	* Refactoring and cleanup
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "A sizeable pile of arm64 updates for 5.8.

  Summary below, but the big two features are support for Branch Target
  Identification and Clang's Shadow Call stack. The latter is currently
  arm64-only, but the high-level parts are all in core code so it could
  easily be adopted by other architectures pending toolchain support

  Branch Target Identification (BTI):

   - Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This allows
     branch targets to limit the types of branch from which they can be
     called and additionally prevents branching to arbitrary code,
     although kernel support requires a very recent toolchain.

   - Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly functions
     are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad" instructions.

   - BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.

   - Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to userspace
     via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader support for the
     BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.

   - Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
     trampoline.

  Shadow Call Stack (SCS):

   - Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
     platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each task
     that holds only return addresses. This protects function return
     control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.

   - Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
     hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).

   - Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
     too.

   - SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
     stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.

  CPU feature detection:

   - Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
     with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a concern
     for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on such a system.

   - Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
     been extended.

  Perf and PMU drivers:

   - Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.

  Hardware errata:

   - Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.

   - Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.

  Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC):

   - Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).

   - Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.

  Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI):

   - Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.

   - Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.

  Pointer authentication:

   - Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so that
     the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.

   - Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.

  BPF backend:

   - Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub instructions.

  vDSO:

   - Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
     architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.

   - Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.

  ACPI:

   - Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating to
     the "num_ids" field.

   - Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only PCIe
     root complexes.

   - Minor other IORT-related fixes.

  Miscellaneous:

   - Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
     deadlock.

   - Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
     TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).

   - Refactoring and cleanup"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Move __load_guest_stage2 to kvm_mmu.h
  KVM: arm64: Check advertised Stage-2 page size capability
  arm64/cpufeature: Add get_arm64_ftr_reg_nowarn()
  ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused __get_pci_rid()
  arm64/cpuinfo: Add ID_MMFR4_EL1 into the cpuinfo_arm64 context
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR1 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64ISAR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_MMFR4 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_PFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_MMFR5 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_DFR1 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_PFR2 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Make doublelock a signed feature in ID_AA64DFR0
  arm64/cpufeature: Drop TraceFilt feature exposure from ID_DFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add explicit ftr_id_isar0[] for ID_ISAR0 register
  arm64: mm: Add asid_gen_match() helper
  firmware: smccc: Fix missing prototype warning for arm_smccc_version_init
  arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline
  arm64: vdso: Don't prefix sigreturn trampoline with a BTI C instruction
  ...
2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
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ABI Printk changes for 5.8 2020-06-01 12:13:30 -07:00
accounting doc: cgroup: improve formatting of references 2020-03-02 12:57:03 -07:00
admin-guide arm64 updates for 5.8 2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
arm docs: arm: tcm: Fix a few typos 2020-02-19 02:42:21 -07:00
arm64 Merge branch 'for-next/bti' into for-next/core 2020-05-28 18:00:51 +01:00
block block: Document genhd capability flags 2020-03-12 07:47:22 -06:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Add Documentation 2020-03-30 01:35:12 +02:00
cdrom
core-api Misc dependency fixes, plus a documentation update about memory protection keys support. 2020-06-01 13:45:59 -07:00
cpu-freq docs: cpu-freq: convert cpufreq-stats.txt to ReST 2020-03-06 00:01:02 +01:00
crypto crypto: algapi - make unregistration functions return void 2019-12-20 14:58:35 +08:00
dev-tools linux-kselftest-kunit-5.7-rc1 2020-04-01 16:11:40 -07:00
devicetree Fixes and new features for pstore 2020-06-01 12:07:34 -07:00
doc-guide Documentation: build warnings related to missing blank lines after explicit markups has been fixed 2020-02-05 10:30:03 -07:00
driver-api A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree. 2020-04-10 17:53:43 -07:00
fault-injection
fb efi/gop: Add an option to list out the available GOP modes 2020-05-20 19:09:20 +02:00
features documentation: vm: Advertise support for pte_special in riscv 2020-02-19 02:41:01 -07:00
filesystems arm64 updates for 5.8 2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
firmware-guide Documentation: firmware-guide: ACPI: fix table alignment in namespace.rst 2020-04-08 14:27:48 +02:00
firmware_class
fpga Documentation: fpga: dfl: add descriptions for thermal/power management interfaces 2019-10-16 19:18:26 -07:00
gpu UAPI Changes: 2020-03-19 10:40:27 +10:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: Add Baikal-T1 PVT sensor driver 2020-05-28 07:59:45 -07:00
i2c i2c: convert SMBus alert setup function to return an ERRPTR 2020-03-10 12:19:52 +01:00
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isdn isdn: capi: dead code removal 2019-12-11 09:12:38 +01:00
kbuild Documentation: kbuild: fix the section title format 2020-04-23 10:53:19 +09:00
kernel-hacking docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout 2020-03-20 17:16:24 -06:00
leds
livepatch livepatch: Documentation of the new API for tracking system state changes 2019-11-01 13:08:24 +01:00
locking locking: Introduce local_lock() 2020-05-28 10:31:09 +02:00
m68k
maintainer Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation 2020-01-24 09:48:39 -07:00
media media updates for v5.7-rc1 2020-03-30 13:42:05 -07:00
mhi docs: Add documentation for MHI bus 2020-03-19 07:41:04 +01:00
mips docs: mips: remove no longer needed au1xxx_ide.rst documentation 2020-03-24 15:53:48 +01:00
misc-devices Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
netlabel
networking ice: cleanup language in ice.rst for fw.app 2020-05-01 15:30:24 -07:00
nios2
nvdimm docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection 2020-01-24 09:54:42 -07:00
openrisc openrisc: configs: Cleanup CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE 2020-01-31 22:10:58 +09:00
parisc
PCI pci-v5.7-changes 2020-04-03 14:25:02 -07:00
pcmcia
power cpu/hotplug: Remove disable_nonboot_cpus() 2020-05-07 15:18:40 +02:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 5.7 2020-04-05 11:12:59 -07:00
process checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning 2020-05-31 11:00:42 -07:00
RCU rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() safe for rq/pi locks 2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
riscv It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a 2020-01-29 15:27:31 -08:00
s390
scheduler Documentation/scheduler: fix links in sched-stats 2019-10-29 04:35:41 -06:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20200402 2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
security crypto: lib/sha1 - rename "sha" to "sha1" 2020-05-08 15:32:17 +10:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Remove now-unnecessary XPS 13 headphone noise fixups 2020-03-31 10:54:06 +02:00
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sphinx docs: Fix empty parallelism argument 2020-02-25 03:11:04 -07:00
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target docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel 2020-03-20 17:01:29 -06:00
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trace sh/ftrace: Move arch_ftrace_nmi_{enter,exit} into nmi exception 2020-05-19 15:51:18 +02:00
translations media updates for v5.7-rc1 2020-03-30 13:42:05 -07:00
usb usb: raw-gadget: documentation updates 2020-05-14 12:30:18 +03:00
userspace-api docs: userspace: ioctl-number: remove mc146818rtc conflict 2020-02-13 11:42:02 -07:00
virt docs/virt/kvm: Document configuring and running nested guests 2020-05-06 05:45:47 -04:00
vm mm/zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig 2020-04-07 10:43:41 -07:00
w1 docs: w1: Fix a typo in omap-hdq.rst 2019-12-30 11:58:02 -07:00
watchdog
x86 Documentation/x86, efi/x86: Clarify EFI handover protocol and its requirements 2020-04-14 08:32:15 +02:00
xtensa
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