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Tiezhu Yang e8dd556c74 LoongArch: Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support
Currently, many architectures support generic CPU vulnerabilites, such
as x86, arm64 and riscv:

 commit 61dc0f555b ("x86/cpu: Implement CPU vulnerabilites sysfs functions")
 commit 61ae1321f0 ("arm64: enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support")
 commit 0e3f3649d4 ("riscv: Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support")

All LoongArch CPUs (since Loongson-3A5000) implement a special mechanism
in the processor core to prevent "Meltdown" and "Spectre" attacks, so it
can enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support for LoongArch too.

Without this patch, there are no user interfaces of vulnerabilities to
check on LoongArch. The output of those files reflects the state of the
CPUs in the system, the output value "Not affected" means "CPU is not
affected by the vulnerability".

Before:

 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow
 cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow: No such file or directory
 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
 cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass: No such file or directory
 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
 cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown: No such file or directory

After:

 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow
 Not affected
 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
 Not affected
 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
 Not affected

Link: https://www.loongson.cn/EN/news/show?id=633
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2024-09-24 15:31:51 +08:00
arch LoongArch: Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support 2024-09-24 15:31:51 +08:00
block Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
drivers Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
fs fix for packet signing of write 2024-09-14 11:43:24 +02:00
include Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
init Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: return correct iovec count from classic buffer peek 2024-08-30 10:45:54 -06:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
lib Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case 2024-09-12 12:10:00 -07:00
net Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-09-16' into loongarch-next 2024-09-17 22:20:12 +08:00
rust rust: macros: provide correct provenance when constructing THIS_MODULE 2024-09-02 09:14:28 +02:00
samples treewide: remove unnecessary <linux/version.h> inclusion 2024-08-12 18:36:44 +09:00
scripts scripts: fix gfp-translate after ___GFP_*_BITS conversion to an enum 2024-09-01 17:59:01 -07:00
security Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging 2024-09-01 09:18:48 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 6.11 2024-09-14 11:54:24 +02:00
tools objtool: Handle frame pointer related instructions 2024-09-17 22:23:09 +08:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX) 2024-08-14 12:28:24 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package 2024-07-22 01:24:22 +09:00
.mailmap sound fixes for 6.11 2024-09-14 11:54:24 +02:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 6.11 2024-09-14 11:54:24 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.11 2024-09-15 16:57:56 +02:00
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.