linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v5.12

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Date:   Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:53:24 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v5.12

Hi Linus,

please pull the first part of the conversion of the paravirt
infrastructure to our patching facilities.

Thx.

---

The following changes since commit 92bf22614b21a2706f4993b278017e437f7785b3:

  Linux 5.11-rc7 (2021-02-07 13:57:38 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_paravirt_for_v5.12

for you to fetch changes up to ab234a260b1f625b26cbefa93ca365b0ae66df33:

  x86/pv: Rework arch_local_irq_restore() to not use popf (2021-02-10 12:36:45 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Part une of a major conversion of the paravirt infrastructure to our
kernel patching facilities and getting rid of the custom-grown ones.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Juergen Gross (5):
      x86/xen: Use specific Xen pv interrupt entry for MCE
      x86/xen: Use specific Xen pv interrupt entry for DF
      x86/pv: Switch SWAPGS to ALTERNATIVE
      x86/xen: Drop USERGS_SYSRET64 paravirt call
      x86/pv: Rework arch_local_irq_restore() to not use popf

 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S             | 26 ++++++++----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h       |  6 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h       | 46 ++++++++++---------------------
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       | 30 --------------------
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 17 ++----------
 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c      |  3 --
 arch/x86/kernel/irqflags.S            | 11 --------
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c            |  7 +----
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch.c      | 10 -------
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c           | 32 +++++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/xen/irq.c                    | 23 ----------------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S                | 52 ++---------------------------------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h                |  3 --
 13 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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