linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/misc for v6.8

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 16:12:21 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/misc for v6.8

Hi Linus,

please pull a couple of miscellaneous fixes for v6.8.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit b85ea95d086471afb4ad062012a4d73cd328fa86:

  Linux 6.7-rc1 (2023-11-12 16:19:07 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_misc_for_v6.8

for you to fetch changes up to f789383fa34a266d0c1a76f272043a15a8edf733:

  x86/ia32: State that IA32 emulation is disabled (2023-12-11 10:14:28 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
- Add an informational message which gets issued when IA32 emulation has
  been disabled on the cmdline

- Clarify in detail how /proc/cpuinfo is used on x86

- Fix a theoretical overflow in num_digits()

----------------------------------------------------------------
Borislav Petkov (AMD) (2):
      Documentation/x86: Document what /proc/cpuinfo is for
      x86/ia32: State that IA32 emulation is disabled

Colin Ian King (1):
      x86/lib: Fix overflow when counting digits

 Documentation/arch/x86/cpuinfo.rst | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h         |  2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h        | 11 ++++-
 arch/x86/lib/misc.c                |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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