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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c, branch linux-4.13.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2017-01-28T08:31:13Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot/e820: Move asm/e820.h to asm/e820/api.h</title>
<updated>2017-01-28T08:31:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T09:27:10Z</published>
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In line with asm/e820/types.h, move the e820 API declarations to
asm/e820/api.h and update all usage sites.

This is just a mechanical, obviously correct move &amp; replace patch,
there will be subsequent changes to clean up the code and to make
better use of the new header organization.

Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.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: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.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: Paul Jackson &lt;pj@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot/32: Convert the 32-bit pgtable setup code from assembly to C</title>
<updated>2017-01-06T07:39:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
</author>
<published>2016-12-08T16:44:31Z</published>
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The new Xen PVH entry point requires page tables to be setup by the
kernel since it is entered with paging disabled.

Pull the common code out of head_32.S so that mk_early_pgtbl_32() can be
invoked from both the new Xen entry point and the existing startup_32()
code.

Convert resulting common code to C.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.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: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.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: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481215471-9639-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Run reserve_bios_regions() after we initialize the memory map</title>
<updated>2016-08-11T09:14:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
</author>
<published>2016-08-10T09:29:13Z</published>
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reserve_bios_regions() is a quirk that reserves memory that we might
otherwise think is available.  There's no need to run it so early,
and running it before we have the memory map initialized with its
non-quirky inputs makes it hard to make reserve_bios_regions() more
intelligent.

Move it right after we populate the memblock state.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.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: Mario Limonciello &lt;mario_limonciello@dell.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/59f58618911005c799c6c9979ce6ae4881d907c2.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T08:11:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
</author>
<published>2016-07-21T07:53:52Z</published>
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So the reserve_ebda_region() code has accumulated a number of
problems over the years that make it really difficult to read
and understand:

- The calculation of 'lowmem' and 'ebda_addr' is an unnecessarily
  interleaved mess of first lowmem, then ebda_addr, then lowmem tweaks...

- 'lowmem' here means 'super low mem' - i.e. 16-bit addressable memory. In other
  parts of the x86 code 'lowmem' means 32-bit addressable memory... This makes it
  super confusing to read.

- It does not help at all that we have various memory range markers, half of which
  are 'start of range', half of which are 'end of range' - but this crucial
  property is not obvious in the naming at all ... gave me a headache trying to
  understand all this.

- Also, the 'ebda_addr' name sucks: it highlights that it's an address (which is
  obvious, all values here are addresses!), while it does not highlight that it's
  the _start_ of the EBDA region ...

- 'BIOS_LOWMEM_KILOBYTES' says a lot of things, except that this is the only value
  that is a pointer to a value, not a memory range address!

- The function name itself is a misnomer: it says 'reserve_ebda_region()' while
  its main purpose is to reserve all the firmware ROM typically between 640K and
  1MB, while the 'EBDA' part is only a small part of that ...

- Likewise, the paravirt quirk flag name 'ebda_search' is misleading as well: this
  too should be about whether to reserve firmware areas in the paravirt case.

- In fact thinking about this as 'end of RAM' is confusing: what this function
  *really* wants to reserve is firmware data and code areas! Once the thinking is
  inverted from a mixed 'ram' and 'reserved firmware area' notion to a pure
  'reserved area' notion everything becomes a lot clearer.

To improve all this rewrite the whole code (without changing the logic):

- Firstly invert the naming from 'lowmem end' to 'BIOS reserved area start'
  and propagate this concept through all the variable names and constants.

	BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR		// was: BIOS_LOWMEM_KILOBYTES

	BIOS_START_MIN			// was: INSANE_CUTOFF

	ebda_start			// was: ebda_addr
	bios_start			// was: lowmem

	BIOS_START_MAX			// was: LOWMEM_CAP

- Then clean up the name of the function itself by renaming it
  to reserve_bios_regions() and renaming the ::ebda_search paravirt
  flag to ::reserve_bios_regions.

- Fix up all the comments (fix typos), harmonize and simplify their
  formulation and remove comments that become unnecessary due to
  the much better naming all around.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/rtc: Replace paravirt rtc check with platform legacy quirk</title>
<updated>2016-04-22T08:29:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
</author>
<published>2016-04-14T00:04:34Z</published>
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We have 4 types of x86 platforms that disable RTC:

  * Intel MID
  * Lguest - uses paravirt
  * Xen dom-U - uses paravirt
  * x86 on legacy systems annotated with an ACPI legacy flag

We can consolidate all of these into a platform specific legacy
quirk set early in boot through i386_start_kernel() and through
x86_64_start_reservations(). This deals with the RTC quirks which
we can rely on through the hardware subarch, the ACPI check can
be dealt with separately.

For Xen things are bit more complex given that the @X86_SUBARCH_XEN
x86_hardware_subarch is shared on for Xen which uses the PV path for
both domU and dom0. Since the semantics for differentiating between
the two are Xen specific we provide a platform helper to help override
default legacy features -- x86_platform.set_legacy_features(). Use
of this helper is highly discouraged, its only purpose should be
to account for the lack of semantics available within your given
x86_hardware_subarch.

As per 0-day, this bumps the vmlinux size using i386-tinyconfig as
follows:

TOTAL   TEXT   init.text    x86_early_init_platform_quirks()
+70     +62    +62          +43

Only 8 bytes overhead total, as the main increase in size is
all removed via __init.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.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: 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: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Cc: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: ffainelli@freebox.fr
Cc: george.dunlap@citrix.com
Cc: glin@suse.com
Cc: jlee@suse.com
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: julien.grall@linaro.org
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: kozerkov@parallels.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lv.zheng@intel.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: mbizon@freebox.fr
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: robert.moore@intel.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: tiwai@suse.de
Cc: toshi.kani@hp.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460592286-300-5-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T11:10:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T22:58:08Z</published>
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Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: "hillf.zj" &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/*</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T23:07:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T22:44:37Z</published>
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As requested by Linus add explicit __visible to the asmlinkage users.
This marks all functions visible to assembler.

Tree sweep for arch/x86/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398984278-29319-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T23:40:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan</name>
</author>
<published>2013-10-17T22:35:29Z</published>
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mrst is used as common name to represent all intel_mid type
soc's. But moorsetwon is just one of the intel_mid soc. So
renamed them to use intel_mid.

This patch mainly renames the variables and related
functions that uses *mrst* prefix with *intel_mid*.

To ensure that there are no functional changes, I have compared
the objdump of related files before and after rename and found
the only difference is symbol and name changes.

Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan &lt;sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-6-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: David Cohen &lt;david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, asmlinkage: Make _*_start_kernel visible</title>
<updated>2013-08-06T21:18:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
</author>
<published>2013-08-05T22:02:38Z</published>
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Obviously these functions have to be visible, otherwise
the whole kernel could be optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375740170-7446-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit</title>
<updated>2013-01-30T03:32:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
</author>
<published>2013-01-24T20:20:12Z</published>
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They are the same, and we could move them out from head32/64.c to setup.c.

We are using memblock, and it could handle overlapping properly, so
we don't need to reserve some at first to hold the location, and just
need to make sure we reserve them before we are using memblock to find
free mem to use.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-32-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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