Patch "x86/smpboot: Remove stale TLB flush invocations" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/smpboot: Remove stale TLB flush invocations

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-smpboot-remove-stale-tlb-flush-invocations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 322f8b8b340c824aef891342b0f5795d15e11562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:13:53 +0100
Subject: x86/smpboot: Remove stale TLB flush invocations

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit 322f8b8b340c824aef891342b0f5795d15e11562 upstream.

smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector() and smpboot_restore_warm_reset_vector()
invoke local_flush_tlb() for no obvious reason.

Digging in history revealed that the original code in the 2.1 era added
those because the code manipulated a swapper_pg_dir pagetable entry. The
pagetable manipulation was removed long ago in the 2.3 timeframe, but the
TLB flush invocations stayed around forever.

Remove them along with the pointless pr_debug()s which come from the same 2.1
change.

Reported-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171230211829.586548655@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -128,14 +128,10 @@ static inline void smpboot_setup_warm_re
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags);
 	CMOS_WRITE(0xa, 0xf);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
-	local_flush_tlb();
-	pr_debug("1.\n");
 	*((volatile unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(TRAMPOLINE_PHYS_HIGH)) =
 							start_eip >> 4;
-	pr_debug("2.\n");
 	*((volatile unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(TRAMPOLINE_PHYS_LOW)) =
 							start_eip & 0xf;
-	pr_debug("3.\n");
 }
 
 static inline void smpboot_restore_warm_reset_vector(void)
@@ -143,11 +139,6 @@ static inline void smpboot_restore_warm_
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/*
-	 * Install writable page 0 entry to set BIOS data area.
-	 */
-	local_flush_tlb();
-
-	/*
 	 * Paranoid:  Set warm reset code and vector here back
 	 * to default values.
 	 */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are

queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/nohz-prevent-a-timer-interrupt-storm-in-tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick.patch
queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-indicate-in-oops-whether-pti-is-configured-and-enabled.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-preempt_disable-enable-from-__native_flush_tlb.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-clarify-the-whole-asid-kernel-pcid-user-pcid-naming.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-plug-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-abstract-switching-cr3.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-optimize-restore_cr3.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-force-entry-through-trampoline-when-pti-active.patch
queue-4.14/timers-invoke-timer_start_debug-where-it-makes-sense.patch
queue-4.14/revert-mlx5-move-affinity-hints-assignments-to-generic-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-entry-align-entry-text-section-to-pmd-boundary.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-make-a-full-pgd-entry-size-hole-in-the-memory-map.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-add-debugstore-entries-to-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-entry-text-pmd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-make-the-ldt-mapping-ro.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-user-space-page-table-for-wx-pages.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-map-the-vsyscall-page-if-needed.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-disable-global-pages-if-page_table_isolation-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-allow-dumping-current-pagetables.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-infrastructure-for-page-table-isolation.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-fix-pcid-to-optimize-user-kernel-switches.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-invpcid-for-__native_flush_tlb_single.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-prepare-the-x86-entry-assembly-code-for-entry-exit-cr3-switching.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-allow-flushing-for-future-asid-switches.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-kconfig.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-mapping-helper-functions.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-map-espfix-into-user-space.patch
queue-4.14/x86-ldt-make-ldt-pgtable-free-conditional.patch
queue-4.14/x86-smpboot-remove-stale-tlb-flush-invocations.patch
queue-4.14/timers-use-deferrable-base-independent-of-base-nohz_active.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-share-cpu_entry_area-with-user-space-page-tables.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-add-functions-to-clone-kernel-pmds.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-add-the-pti-cmdline-option-and-documentation.patch
queue-4.14/timers-reinitialize-per-cpu-bases-on-hotplug.patch
queue-4.14/x86-events-intel-ds-map-debug-buffers-in-cpu_entry_area.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allocate-a-separate-user-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-pti-put-the-ldt-in-its-own-pgd-if-pti-is-on.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-populate-user-pgd.patch
queue-4.14/x86-32-fix-kexec-with-stack-canary-config_cc_stackprotector.patch
queue-4.14/x86-espfix-64-fix-espfix-double-fault-handling-on-5-level-systems.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-add-page-table-directory-to-the-debugfs-vfs-hierarchy.patch