Patch "x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
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-entry-align-entry-text-section-to-pmd-boundary.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 <[email protected]> know about it.
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2f7412ba9c6af5ab16bdbb4a3fdb1dcd2b4fd3c2Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:46 +0100
Subject: x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
commit 2f7412ba9c6af5ab16bdbb4a3fdb1dcd2b4fd3c2 upstream.
The (irq)entry text must be visible in the user space page tables. To allow simple PMD based sharing, make the entry text PMD aligned.
--- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +8 -0
@@ -61,11 +61,17 @@ jiffies_64 = jiffies; . = ALIGN(HPAGE_SIZE); \ __end_rodata_hpage_align = .; +#define ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_BEGIN . = ALIGN(PMD_SIZE); +#define ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_END . = ALIGN(PMD_SIZE); + #else #define X64_ALIGN_RODATA_BEGIN #define X64_ALIGN_RODATA_END +#define ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_BEGIN +#define ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_END + #endif PHDRS {
@@ -102,8 +108,10 @@ SECTIONS CPUIDLE_TEXT LOCK_TEXT KPROBES_TEXT + ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_BEGIN ENTRY_TEXT IRQENTRY_TEXT + ALIGN_ENTRY_TEXT_END SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT *(.fixup) *(.gnu.warning)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.14/x86-mm-pti-allow-nx-poison-to-be-set-in-p4d-pgd.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-indicate-in-oops-whether-pti-is-configured-and-enabled.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-clarify-the-whole-asid-kernel-pcid-user-pcid-naming.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/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-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/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-mm-dump_pagetables-add-page-table-directory-to-the-debugfs-vfs-hierarchy.patch