linux/Documentation/arch
Linus Torvalds 685d982112 Core x86 changes for v6.9:
- The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code,
   to support the 'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature,
   by Uros Bizjak:
 
    - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative
      memory via variables declared with such attributes,
      which allows the compiler to better optimize those accesses
      than the previous inline assembly code.
 
    - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations
      for various percpu access methods, plus a number of
      cleanups of %gs accesses in assembly code.
 
    - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for
      the last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.
 
 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally
   working handling of FPU switching - which also generates
   better code.
 
 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code,
   to generate slightly better code.
 
 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic,
   to make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options.
 
 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and
   to clean up the logic.
 
 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic.
 
 - Misc cleanups and fixes.
 
 [ Please note that there's a higher number of merge commits in
   this branch (three) than is usual in x86 topic trees. This happened
   due to the long testing lifecycle of the percpu changes that
   involved 3 merge windows, which generated a longer history
   and various interactions with other core x86 changes that we
   felt better about to carry in a single branch. ]
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       => CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      => CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
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arc docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
arm docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
arm64 arm64: Subscribe Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 to ARM Neoverse N2 errata 2024-02-15 11:47:22 +00:00
loongarch A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes. 2024-01-17 11:49:11 -08:00
m68k docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
mips docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
nios2 docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
openrisc docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
parisc docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
powerpc docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
riscv A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes. 2024-01-17 11:49:11 -08:00
s390 docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
sh docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
sparc docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
x86 Core x86 changes for v6.9: 2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
xtensa docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection 2024-01-11 09:21:01 -07:00
index.rst The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around, but 2023-11-01 17:11:41 -10:00