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David Woodhouse 76b043848f x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
Enable the use of -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern in newer GCC, and provide
the corresponding thunks. Provide assembler macros for invoking the thunks
in the same way that GCC does, from native and inline assembler.

This adds X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE and sets it by default on all CPUs. In
some circumstances, IBRS microcode features may be used instead, and the
retpoline can be disabled.

On AMD CPUs if lfence is serialising, the retpoline can be dramatically
simplified to a simple "lfence; jmp *\reg". A future patch, after it has
been verified that lfence really is serialising in all circumstances, can
enable this by setting the X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD feature bit in addition
to X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE.

Do not align the retpoline in the altinstr section, because there is no
guarantee that it stays aligned when it's copied over the oldinstr during
alternative patching.

[ Andi Kleen: Rename the macros, add CONFIG_RETPOLINE option, export thunks]
[ tglx: Put actual function CALL/JMP in front of the macros, convert to
  	symbolic labels ]
[ dwmw2: Convert back to numeric labels, merge objtool fixes ]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-4-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
2018-01-12 00:14:28 +01:00
arch x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support 2018-01-12 00:14:28 +01:00
block License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-06 09:05:03 -08:00
Documentation sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation 2018-01-09 16:17:50 +01:00
drivers sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder 2018-01-08 11:10:33 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-17 13:57:15 +01:00
include sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder 2018-01-08 11:10:33 +01:00
init x86/mm/pti: Add infrastructure for page table isolation 2017-12-23 21:12:59 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel arch, mm: Allow arch_dup_mmap() to fail 2017-12-22 20:13:01 +01:00
lib Merge commit 'upstream-x86-entry' into WIP.x86/mm 2017-12-17 12:58:53 +01:00
mm locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-17 13:57:15 +01:00
net vlan: fix a use-after-free in vlan_device_event() 2017-11-11 19:35:32 +09:00
samples License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
scripts Merge commit 'upstream-x86-entry' into WIP.x86/mm 2017-12-17 12:58:53 +01:00
security x86/pti: Enable PTI by default 2018-01-03 15:57:58 +01:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14 2017-11-09 09:58:11 -08:00
tools objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored 2018-01-12 00:14:28 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Fixes for interrupt controller emulation in ARM/ARM64 and x86, plus a one-liner 2017-11-04 11:44:55 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Merge commit 'upstream-x86-entry' into WIP.x86/mm 2017-12-17 12:58:53 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.