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[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes

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Hi all-

This whole mess is intended for x86/urgent.  It fixes several bugs.

It's probably a tiny performance regression on some workloads on
Intel CPUs.  It's probably varies between a less tiny regression and
a small speedup on newer AMD CPUs.  It's a bigger regression on AMD
K8.

The AMD code could be further sped up by adding a new 'clear_gs'
pvop with a better native implementation.  I don't particularly want
to deal with a backported new pvop, so I didn't do that.  Maybe I'll
do it later on for new kernels, though.

(For people who care about such things, there are probably three
bugs in here depending how you count.  Somewhere between one and two
of them were independently discovered by Rudolf Marek.)

Andy Lutomirski (5):
  selftests/x86: Test the FSBASE/GSBASE API and context switching
  x86/arch_prctl: Fix ARCH_GET_FS and ARCH_GET_GS
  x86/cpu: Probe the behavior of nulling out a segment at boot time
  x86/switch_to: Rewrite the FS and GS context switch code
  x86/cpu: Move X86_BUG_ESPFIX initialization to generic_identify

Borislav Petkov (2):
  x86/cpu: Add Erratum 88 detection on AMD
  x86/entry: Make gs_change a local label

 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S              |  12 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h     |   3 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c              |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c           |  71 ++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c           | 167 ++++++++------
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile   |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c | 398 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 560 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c

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[PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-08 02:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 1/7] selftests/x86: Test the FSBASE/GSBASE API and context switching Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-08 02:40 +0200
    [tip:x86/asm] selftests/x86: Test the FSBASE/GSBASE API and context  switching tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-13 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 5/7] x86/cpu: Move X86_BUG_ESPFIX initialization to generic_identify Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-08 02:40 +0200
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/cpu: Move X86_BUG_ESPFIX initialization to  generic_identify() tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-13 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 7/7] x86/entry: Make gs_change a local label Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-08 02:40 +0200
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry/64: Make gs_change a local label tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-13 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/cpu: Add Erratum 88 detection on AMD Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-04-08 03:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/cpu: Add Erratum 88 detection on AMD Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-08 12:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] x86/arch_prctl: Fix ARCH_GET_FS and ARCH_GET_GS Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-08 09:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] x86/arch_prctl: Fix ARCH_GET_FS and ARCH_GET_GS Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] x86/arch_prctl: Fix ARCH_GET_FS and ARCH_GET_GS Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-04-08 18:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-08 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Pile o' FS/GS changes Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-08 12:50 +0200

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