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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/20kvm: mmu: Dont read PDPTEs when paging is not enabledarch/x86/kvm/x86.c+2 -20 replies
2/20MIPS: BCM63XX: fix switch core reset on BCM6368arch/mips/bcm63xx/reset.c+1 -10 replies
3/20powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian optionsarch/powerpc/Makefile+12 -100 replies
4/20powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchainarch/powerpc/Makefile+10 -10 replies
5/20powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapperarch/powerpc/boot/wrapper+23 -10 replies
6/20KVM: Introduce kvm_get_arch_capabilities()arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c arch/x86/kvm/x86.c+12 -20 replies
7/20KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hostsarch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c arch/x86/kvm/x86.c+13 -140 replies
8/20kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supportedarch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c+5 -00 replies
9/20KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 codearch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c arch/x86/kvm/x86.c+15 -00 replies
10/20x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSRarch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h+5 -00 replies
11/20x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h+13 -40 replies
12/20x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by defaultDocumentation/kernel-parameters.txt arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +3 more+175 -10 replies
13/20x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abortarch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +3 more+132 -20 replies
14/20x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abortarch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c drivers/base/cpu.c include/linux/cpu.h+35 -00 replies
15/20kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabledarch/x86/kvm/x86.c+19 -00 replies
16/20x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameterDocumentation/kernel-parameters.txt arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c+9 -10 replies
17/20x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async AbortDocumentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +1 more+419 -00 replies
18/20x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|autoarch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c+61 -60 replies
19/20x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c+0 -40 replies
20/20x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructureDocumentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h +4 more+65 -280 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

12 of 20 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchNeelima KrishnanMark GrossTony LuckJosh PoimboeufTyler HicksBorislav PetkovNaveen N. RaoJim MattsonKonrad Rzeszutek WilkGreg Kroah-Hartman
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4/20T-b
5/20
6/20
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8/20R-b
9/20R-b
10/20T-b R-b R-b R-b
11/20T-b R-b R-b R-b
12/20R-b
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14/20T-b R-b R-b R-b R-b
15/20T-b R-b R-b
16/20R-b R-b
17/20R-b R-b R-b
18/20R-b
19/20R-b R-b
20/20

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Cover letter [PATCH 4.4 00/20] 4.4.202-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.202 release. There are 20 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Responses should be made by Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:18:31 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.202-rc1.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 4.4.202-rc1

Vineela Tummalapalli <[email protected]>
x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs

Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()

Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 code

Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported

Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
KVM: Introduce kvm_get_arch_capabilities()

Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper

Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain

Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian options

Jonas Gorski <[email protected]>
MIPS: BCM63XX: fix switch core reset on BCM6368

Junaid Shahid <[email protected]>
kvm: mmu: Don't read PDPTEs when paging is not enabled

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   2 +
 Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst          | 268 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt                |  62 +++++
 Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst              | 117 +++++++++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/mips/bcm63xx/reset.c                          |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Makefile                              |  31 ++-
 arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper                          |  24 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                                   |  45 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h                    |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                   |  16 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h               |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h                   |   7 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile                       |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         | 143 ++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                       |  93 ++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h                          |  18 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c                        |   5 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c                          | 140 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                               |  12 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                                 |  15 --
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 |  53 +++-
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |  17 ++
 include/linux/cpu.h                                |   5 +
 25 files changed, 1019 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)