linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/cpu for v6.0

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 1 Aug 2022 13:22:35 +0200
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/cpu for v6.0

Hi Linus,

please pull a couple of x86/cpu changes for 6.0.

Thx.

---

The following changes since commit 2147c438fde135d6c145a96e373d9348e7076f7f:

  x86/speculation: Add missing prototype for unpriv_ebpf_notify() (2022-04-28 11:12:17 +0200)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_cpu_for_v6.0_rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 3f2adf00f52b5f2e9e9f23bb5c77608fc9ee297c:

  x86/cpu: Use MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE constants (2022-07-19 20:53:10 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
- Remove the vendor check when selecting MWAIT as the default idle state

- Respect idle=nomwait when supplied on the kernel cmdline

- Two small cleanups

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paolo Bonzini (1):
      x86/cpu: Use MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE constants

Wyes Karny (3):
      x86: Handle idle=nomwait cmdline properly for x86_idle
      x86: Remove vendor checks from prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt
      x86: Fix comment for X86_FEATURE_ZEN

 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst | 15 ++++++-----
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h       |  2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h             |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c              |  4 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c                | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)