From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56384 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbeACTll (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 14:41:41 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: tglx@linutronix.de, David.Laight@aculab.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, bp@alien8.de, bp@suse.de, bpetkov@suse.de, brgerst@gmail.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, eduval@amazon.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, jgross@suse.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, will.deacon@arm.com Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:40:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1515008425117200@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single to the 4.9-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-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 20:37:21 CET 2018 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:30 +0100 Subject: x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single From: Thomas Gleixner commit a035795499ca1c2bd1928808d1a156eda1420383 upstream native_flush_tlb_single() will be changed with the upcoming PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION feature. This requires to have more code in there than INVLPG. Remove the paravirt patching for it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150606.828111617@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ DEF_NATIVE(pv_irq_ops, save_fl, "pushfq; DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr2, "movq %cr2, %rax"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr3, "movq %cr3, %rax"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, write_cr3, "movq %rdi, %cr3"); -DEF_NATIVE(pv_mmu_ops, flush_tlb_single, "invlpg (%rdi)"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, clts, "clts"); DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, wbinvd, "wbinvd"); @@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ unsigned native_patch(u8 type, u16 clobb PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, read_cr3); PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, write_cr3); PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, clts); - PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, flush_tlb_single); PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, wbinvd); #if defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) case PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock): Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.9/x86-boot-add-early-cmdline-parsing-for-options-with-arguments.patch