linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/misc for v6.9-rc1

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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:56:17 +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 v6.9-rc1

Hi Linus,

please pull a pile of the miscellaneous, garden variety fixes for v6.9-rc1.

Thx.

---

The following changes since commit 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d:

  Linux 6.8-rc1 (2024-01-21 14:11:32 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1

for you to fetch changes up to d54e56f31a34fa38fcb5e91df609f9633419a79a:

  x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check (2024-02-26 23:41:30 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
- Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes (or
  not) a NMI handler

- Ratelimit unknown NMIs messages in order to not potentially slow down
  the machine

- Other fixlets

----------------------------------------------------------------
Borislav Petkov (AMD) (3):
      Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=off
      Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add Closes tag
      Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add C++ tail comments exception

Breno Leitao (1):
      x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check

Namhyung Kim (1):
      x86/nmi: Rate limit unknown NMI messages

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  1 +
 Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst        | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c                           |  8 +++---
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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