linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.3

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-08-25T17:10:15Z

Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A few fixes for x86: - Fix a boot regression caused by the recent bootparam sanitizing change, which escaped the attention of all people who reviewed that code. - Address a boot problem on machines with broken E820 tables caused by an underflow which ended up placing the trampoline start at physical address 0. - Handle machines which do not advertise a legacy timer of any form, but need calibration of the local APIC timer gracefully by making the calibration routine independent from the tick interrupt. Marked for stable as well as there seems to be quite some new laptops rolled out which expose this. - Clear the RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h and 16h CPUs which are affected by broken firmware which does not initialize RDRAND correctly after resume. Add a command line parameter to override this for machine which either do not use suspend/resume or have a fixed BIOS. Unfortunately there is no way to detect this on boot, so the only safe decision is to turn it off by default. - Prevent RFLAGS from being clobbers in CALL_NOSPEC on 32bit which caused fast KVM instruction emulation to break. - Explain the Intel CPU model naming convention so that the repeating discussions come to an end" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/retpoline: Don't clobber RFLAGS during CALL_NOSPEC on i386 x86/boot: Fix boot regression caused by bootparam sanitizing x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table x86/apic: Handle missing global clockevent gracefully x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention

x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h

2019-08-19T17:42:52Z

There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues to function properly. RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is not supported. Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family 15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family 15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit. Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in place after resuming from suspend. Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Cooper Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chen Yu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Kees Cook Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "x86@kernel.org" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com

docs: admin-guide: remove references to IPX and token-ring

2019-08-09T01:06:53Z

Both IPX and TR have not been supported for a while now. Remove them from the /proc/sys/net documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Documentation: Add swapgs description to the Spectre v1 documentation

2019-08-03T19:21:54Z

Add documentation to the Spectre document about the new swapgs variant of Spectre v1. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch master from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

2019-07-28T20:22:40Z

Pick up the spectre documentation so the Grand Schemozzle can be added.

Merge tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-07-26T18:29:24Z

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "This is mostly a set of follow-on fixes from Mauro fixing various fallout from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as well" * tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (21 commits) docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made' doc:it_IT: translations in process/ docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference doc:it_IT: rephrase statement doc:it_IT: align translation to mainline docs: load_config.py: ensure subdirs end with "/" docs: virtual: add it to the documentation body docs: remove extra conf.py files docs: load_config.py: avoid needing a conf.py just due to LaTeX docs scripts/sphinx-pre-install: seek for Noto CJK fonts for pdf output scripts/sphinx-pre-install: cleanup Gentoo checks scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix latexmk dependencies scripts/sphinx-pre-install: don't use LaTeX with CentOS 7 scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS docs: conf.py: only use CJK if the font is available docs: conf.py: add CJK package needed by translations docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output docs: fix broken doc references due to renames docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst ...

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2019-07-24T16:46:13Z

Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user" KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested

Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt

2019-07-24T08:52:11Z

Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt, as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation to match that. Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference

2019-07-22T20:45:12Z

Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'pdf_fixes_v1' of https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental into mauro

2019-07-22T19:51:20Z

Bring in a set of post-thrashup fixes from Mauro.