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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu, branch linux-4.8.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2016-10-16T16:03:39Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/pkeys: Make protection keys an "eager" feature</title>
<updated>2016-10-16T16:03:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T16:23:42Z</published>
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commit d4b05923f579c234137317cdf9a5eb69ddab76d1 upstream.

Our XSAVE features are divided into two categories: those that
generate FPU exceptions, and those that do not.  MPX and pkeys do
not generate FPU exceptions and thus can not be used lazily.  We
disable them when lazy mode is forced on.

We have a pair of masks to collect these two sets of features, but
XFEATURE_MASK_PKRU was added to the wrong mask: XFEATURE_MASK_LAZY.
Fix it by moving the feature to XFEATURE_MASK_EAGER.

Note: this only causes problem if you boot with lazy FPU mode
(eagerfpu=off) which is *not* the default.  It also only affects
hardware which is not currently publicly available.  It looks like
eager mode is going away, but we still need this patch applied
to any kernel that has protection keys and lazy mode, which is 4.6
through 4.8 at this point, and 4.9 if the lazy removal isn't sent
to Linus for 4.9.

Fixes: c8df40098451 ("x86/fpu, x86/mm/pkeys: Add PKRU xsave fields and data structures")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161007162342.28A49813@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tree-wide: replace config_enabled() with IS_ENABLED()</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T12:50:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T20:45:50Z</published>
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The use of config_enabled() against config options is ambiguous.  In
practical terms, config_enabled() is equivalent to IS_BUILTIN(), but the
author might have used it for the meaning of IS_ENABLED().  Using
IS_ENABLED(), IS_BUILTIN(), IS_MODULE() etc.  makes the intention
clearer.

This commit replaces config_enabled() with IS_ENABLED() where possible.
This commit is only touching bool config options.

I noticed two cases where config_enabled() is used against a tristate
option:

 - config_enabled(CONFIG_HWMON)
  [ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/thermal.c ]

 - config_enabled(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE)
  [ drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/opregion.c ]

I did not touch them because they should be converted to IS_BUILTIN()
in order to keep the logic, but I was not sure it was the authors'
intention.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465215656-20569-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stas Sergeev &lt;stsp@list.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Cc: yu-cheng yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Martynov &lt;mar.kolya@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rafal Milecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Cowgill &lt;James.Cowgill@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Smith &lt;alex.smith@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mikko Rapeli &lt;mikko.rapeli@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" &lt;mcgrof@do-not-panic.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Wu &lt;tung7970@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Huaitong Han &lt;huaitong.han@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Gelmini &lt;andrea.gelmini@gelma.net&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu/xstate: Fix fpstate_init() for XRSTORS</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T14:44:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu-cheng Yu</name>
</author>
<published>2016-07-11T16:18:56Z</published>
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In XSAVES mode if fpstate_init() is used to initialize a
task's extended state area, xsave.header.xcomp_bv[63] must
be set. Otherwise, when the task is scheduled, a warning is
triggered from copy_kernel_to_xregs().

One such test case is: setting an invalid extended state
through PTRACE. When xstateregs_set() rejects the syscall
and re-initializes the task's extended state area. This triggers
the warning mentioned above.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;h.peter.anvin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi V Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468253937-40008-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu/xstate: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES</title>
<updated>2016-07-10T15:12:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu-cheng Yu</name>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T20:07:17Z</published>
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XSAVES uses compacted format and is a kernel instruction. The kernel
should use standard-format, non-supervisor state data for PTRACE.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
[ Edited away artificial linebreaks. ]
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya &lt;sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de3d80949001305fe389799973b675cab055c457.1466179491.git.yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
[ Made various readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu/xstate: Fix supervisor xstate component offset</title>
<updated>2016-07-10T15:12:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu-cheng Yu</name>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T20:07:16Z</published>
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CPUID function 0x0d, sub function (i, i &gt; 1) returns in ebx the offset of
xstate component i. Zero is returned for a supervisor state. A supervisor
state can only be saved by XSAVES and XSAVES uses a compacted format.
There is no fixed offset for a supervisor state. This patch checks and
makes sure a supervisor state offset is not recorded or mis-used. This has
no effect in practice as we currently use no supervisor states, but it
would be good to fix.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya &lt;sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/81b29e40d35d4cec9f2511a856fe769f34935a3f.1466179491.git.yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu/xstate: Copy xstate registers directly to the signal frame when compacted format is in use</title>
<updated>2016-06-18T08:10:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu-cheng Yu</name>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T17:47:08Z</published>
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XSAVES is a kernel instruction and uses a compacted format. When working
with user space, the kernel should provide standard-format, non-supervisor
state data. We cannot do __copy_to_user() from a compacted-format kernel
xstate area to a signal frame.

Dave Hansen proposes this method to simplify copy xstate directly to user.

This patch is based on an earlier patch from Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;

Originally-from: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya &lt;sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c36f419d525517d04209a28dd8e1e5af9000036e.1463760376.git.yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu/xstate: Define and use 'fpu_user_xstate_size'</title>
<updated>2016-06-18T08:10:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T17:47:05Z</published>
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The kernel xstate area can be in standard or compacted format;
it is always in standard format for user mode. When XSAVES is
enabled, the kernel uses the compacted format and it is necessary
to use a separate fpu_user_xstate_size for signal/ptrace frames.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
[ Rebased the patch and cleaned up the naming. ]
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya &lt;sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8756ec34dabddfc727cda5743195eb81e8caf91c.1463760376.git.yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Add tracepoints to dump FPU state at key points</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T11:33:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2016-06-01T17:42:20Z</published>
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I've been carrying this patch around for a bit and it's helped me
solve at least a couple FPU-related bugs.  In addition to using
it for debugging, I also drug it out because using AVX (and
AVX2/AVX-512) can have serious power consequences for a modern
core.  It's very important to be able to figure out who is using
it.

It's also insanely useful to go out and see who is using a given
feature, like MPX or Memory Protection Keys.  If you, for
instance, want to find all processes using protection keys, you
can do:

	echo 'xfeatures &amp; 0x200' &gt; filter

Since 0x200 is the protection keys feature bit.

Note that this touches the KVM code.  KVM did a CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
and then included a bunch of random headers.  If anyone one of
those included other tracepoints, it would have defined the *OTHER*
tracepoints.  That's bogus, so move it to the right place.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160601174220.3CDFB90E@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:08:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T02:08:56Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T17:23:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T17:23:56Z</published>
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Pull x86 fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change in terms of impact is the changing of the FPU
  context switch model to 'eagerfpu' for all CPU types, via: commit
  58122bf1d856: "x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs"

  This makes all FPU saves and restores synchronous and makes the FPU
  code a lot more obvious to read.  In the next cycle, if this change is
  problem free, we'll remove the old lazy FPU restore code altogether.

  This change flushed out some old bugs, which should all be fixed by
  now, BYMMV"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs
  x86/fpu: Speed up lazy FPU restores slightly
  x86/fpu: Fold fpu_copy() into fpu__copy()
  x86/fpu: Fix FNSAVE usage in eagerfpu mode
  x86/fpu: Fix math emulation in eager fpu mode
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