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Linus Torvalds 5b7f7234ff x86/boot changes for v6.14:
- A large and involved preparatory series to pave the way to add exception
    handling for relocate_kernel - which will be a debugging facility that
    has aided in the field to debug an exceptionally hard to debug early boot bug.
    Plus assorted cleanups and fixes that were discovered along the way,
    by David Woodhouse:
 
       - Clean up and document register use in relocate_kernel_64.S
       - Use named labels in swap_pages in relocate_kernel_64.S
       - Only swap pages for ::preserve_context mode
       - Allocate PGD for x86_64 transition page tables separately
       - Copy control page into place in machine_kexec_prepare()
       - Invoke copy of relocate_kernel() instead of the original
       - Move relocate_kernel to kernel .data section
       - Add data section to relocate_kernel
       - Drop page_list argument from relocate_kernel()
       - Eliminate writes through kernel mapping of relocate_kernel page
       - Clean up register usage in relocate_kernel()
       - Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX
       - Disable global pages before writing to control page
       - Ensure preserve_context flag is set on return to kernel
       - Use correct swap page in swap_pages function
       - Fix stack and handling of re-entry point for ::preserve_context
       - Mark machine_kexec() with __nocfi
       - Cope with relocate_kernel() not being at the start of the page
       - Use typedef for relocate_kernel_fn function prototype
       - Fix location of relocate_kernel with -ffunction-sections (fix by Nathan Chancellor)
 
  - A series to remove the last remaining absolute symbol references from
    .head.text, and enforce this at build time, by Ard Biesheuvel:
 
       - Avoid WARN()s and panic()s in early boot code
       - Don't hang but terminate on failure to remap SVSM CA
       - Determine VA/PA offset before entering C code
       - Avoid intentional absolute symbol references in .head.text
       - Disable UBSAN in early boot code
       - Move ENTRY_TEXT to the start of the image
       - Move .head.text into its own output section
       - Reject absolute references in .head.text
 
  - Which build-time enforcement uncovered a handful of bugs of essentially
    non-working code, and a wrokaround for a toolchain bug, fixed by
    Ard Biesheuvel as well:
 
       - Fix spurious undefined reference when CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=n, on GCC-12
       - Disable UBSAN on SEV code that may execute very early
       - Disable ftrace branch profiling in SEV startup code
 
  - And miscellaneous cleanups:
 
        - kexec_core: Add and update comments regarding the KEXEC_JUMP flow (Rafael J. Wysocki)
        - x86/sysfs: Constify 'struct bin_attribute' (Thomas Weißschuh)
 
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Merge tag 'x86-boot-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - A large and involved preparatory series to pave the way to add
   exception handling for relocate_kernel - which will be a debugging
   facility that has aided in the field to debug an exceptionally hard
   to debug early boot bug. Plus assorted cleanups and fixes that were
   discovered along the way, by David Woodhouse:

      - Clean up and document register use in relocate_kernel_64.S
      - Use named labels in swap_pages in relocate_kernel_64.S
      - Only swap pages for ::preserve_context mode
      - Allocate PGD for x86_64 transition page tables separately
      - Copy control page into place in machine_kexec_prepare()
      - Invoke copy of relocate_kernel() instead of the original
      - Move relocate_kernel to kernel .data section
      - Add data section to relocate_kernel
      - Drop page_list argument from relocate_kernel()
      - Eliminate writes through kernel mapping of relocate_kernel page
      - Clean up register usage in relocate_kernel()
      - Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX
      - Disable global pages before writing to control page
      - Ensure preserve_context flag is set on return to kernel
      - Use correct swap page in swap_pages function
      - Fix stack and handling of re-entry point for ::preserve_context
      - Mark machine_kexec() with __nocfi
      - Cope with relocate_kernel() not being at the start of the page
      - Use typedef for relocate_kernel_fn function prototype
      - Fix location of relocate_kernel with -ffunction-sections (fix by Nathan Chancellor)

 - A series to remove the last remaining absolute symbol references from
   .head.text, and enforce this at build time, by Ard Biesheuvel:

      - Avoid WARN()s and panic()s in early boot code
      - Don't hang but terminate on failure to remap SVSM CA
      - Determine VA/PA offset before entering C code
      - Avoid intentional absolute symbol references in .head.text
      - Disable UBSAN in early boot code
      - Move ENTRY_TEXT to the start of the image
      - Move .head.text into its own output section
      - Reject absolute references in .head.text

 - The above build-time enforcement uncovered a handful of bugs of
   essentially non-working code, and a wrokaround for a toolchain bug,
   fixed by Ard Biesheuvel as well:

      - Fix spurious undefined reference when CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=n, on GCC-12
      - Disable UBSAN on SEV code that may execute very early
      - Disable ftrace branch profiling in SEV startup code

 - And miscellaneous cleanups:

      - kexec_core: Add and update comments regarding the KEXEC_JUMP flow (Rafael J. Wysocki)
      - x86/sysfs: Constify 'struct bin_attribute' (Thomas Weißschuh)"

* tag 'x86-boot-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable ftrace branch profiling in SEV startup code
  x86/kexec: Use typedef for relocate_kernel_fn function prototype
  x86/kexec: Cope with relocate_kernel() not being at the start of the page
  kexec_core: Add and update comments regarding the KEXEC_JUMP flow
  x86/kexec: Mark machine_kexec() with __nocfi
  x86/kexec: Fix location of relocate_kernel with -ffunction-sections
  x86/kexec: Fix stack and handling of re-entry point for ::preserve_context
  x86/kexec: Use correct swap page in swap_pages function
  x86/kexec: Ensure preserve_context flag is set on return to kernel
  x86/kexec: Disable global pages before writing to control page
  x86/sev: Don't hang but terminate on failure to remap SVSM CA
  x86/sev: Disable UBSAN on SEV code that may execute very early
  x86/boot/64: Fix spurious undefined reference when CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=n, on GCC-12
  x86/sysfs: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  x86/kexec: Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX
  x86/kexec: Clean up register usage in relocate_kernel()
  x86/kexec: Eliminate writes through kernel mapping of relocate_kernel page
  x86/kexec: Drop page_list argument from relocate_kernel()
  x86/kexec: Add data section to relocate_kernel
  x86/kexec: Move relocate_kernel to kernel .data section
  ...
2025-01-24 05:54:26 -08:00
arch x86/boot changes for v6.14: 2025-01-24 05:54:26 -08:00
block for-6.14/io_uring-20250119 2025-01-20 20:27:33 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto CRC updates for 6.14 2025-01-22 19:55:08 -08:00
Documentation perf-tools changes for v6.14 2025-01-24 05:45:40 -08:00
drivers CRC updates for 6.14 2025-01-22 19:55:08 -08:00
fs twenty three ksmbd server fixes, many DFS related 2025-01-23 17:05:45 -08:00
include Remove calltime and rettime from fgraph infrastructure 2025-01-23 17:59:25 -08:00
init Rust changes for v6.14 2025-01-21 17:48:03 -08:00
io_uring for-6.14/io_uring-20250119 2025-01-20 20:27:33 -08:00
ipc - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
kernel x86/boot changes for v6.14: 2025-01-24 05:54:26 -08:00
lib Fix atomic64 operations on some architectures for the tracing ring buffer: 2025-01-23 18:02:55 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm \n 2025-01-23 13:36:06 -08:00
net bpf-next-6.14 2025-01-23 08:04:07 -08:00
rust Networking changes for 6.14. 2025-01-22 08:28:57 -08:00
samples bpf-next-6.14 2025-01-23 08:04:07 -08:00
scripts bpf-next-6.14 2025-01-23 08:04:07 -08:00
security \n 2025-01-23 13:36:06 -08:00
sound i2c-for-6.14-rc1 2025-01-22 10:47:46 -08:00
tools perf-tools changes for v6.14 2025-01-24 05:45:40 -08:00
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt VFIO updates for v6.13 2024-11-27 12:57:03 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap Networking changes for 6.14. 2025-01-22 08:28:57 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: remove Andy Gospodarek from bonding 2025-01-09 08:30:01 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS capabilities patches for 6.14-rc1 2025-01-23 08:00:16 -08:00
Makefile Networking changes for 6.14. 2025-01-22 08:28:57 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.