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Revision tags: v6.6.67, v6.6.66, v6.6.65, v6.6.64, v6.6.63, v6.6.62, v6.6.61, v6.6.60, v6.6.59, v6.6.58, v6.6.57, v6.6.56, v6.6.55, v6.6.54, v6.6.53, v6.6.52, v6.6.51, v6.6.50, v6.6.49, v6.6.48, v6.6.47, v6.6.46, v6.6.45, v6.6.44, v6.6.43, v6.6.42, v6.6.41, v6.6.40, v6.6.39, v6.6.38, v6.6.37, v6.6.36, v6.6.35, v6.6.34, v6.6.33, v6.6.32, v6.6.31, v6.6.30, v6.6.29, v6.6.28, v6.6.27, v6.6.26, v6.6.25, v6.6.24, v6.6.23, v6.6.16, v6.6.15, v6.6.14, v6.6.13, v6.6.12, v6.6.11, v6.6.10, v6.6.9, v6.6.8, v6.6.7, v6.6.6, v6.6.5, v6.6.4, v6.6.3, v6.6.2, v6.5.11, v6.6.1, v6.5.10, v6.6, v6.5.9, v6.5.8, v6.5.7, v6.5.6, v6.5.5, v6.5.4, v6.5.3, v6.5.2, v6.1.51, v6.5.1, v6.1.50, v6.5, v6.1.49, v6.1.48, v6.1.46, v6.1.45, v6.1.44
# 2612e3bb 07-Aug-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo V

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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# 9f771739 07-Aug-2023 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/1

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/121735/

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1.43, v6.1.42, v6.1.41
# 61b73694 24-Jul-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.5-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.1.40, v6.1.39
# 0791faeb 17-Jul-2023 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

ASoC: Merge v6.5-rc2

Get a similar baseline to my other branches, and fixes for people using
the branch.


# 2f98e686 11-Jul-2023 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge v6.5-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Boris needs 6.5-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to prevent a conflict.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


Revision tags: v6.1.38, v6.1.37
# 44f10dbe 30-Jun-2023 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable


# 77b1a7f7 28-Jun-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:

- Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototy

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:

- Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level
directories

- Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which
cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
perform checks on other CPUs

- Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions

- Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
Kconfig entries

- And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include
ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off
watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h
devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource()
watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific
watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h
watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward
watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way
watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code
watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()
watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called
watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog()
watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy()
watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick()
watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe()
watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
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Revision tags: v6.1.36
# 9244724f 26-Jun-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large update for SMP management:

- Parallel CPU bringup

Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large update for SMP management:

- Parallel CPU bringup

The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to
shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the
downtime of the VM tenants.

The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:

1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state

There are two significant delays:

#3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary()
on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.

#4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending
on the microcode patch size to apply.

On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to
come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual
onlining procedure.

This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup
mechanism into two parts:

1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP
which needs to be brought up.

The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the
low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in
parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2
above)

2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
(#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.

Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible
in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery
would be justified for a pretty small gain.

If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at
the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the
wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that
SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.

The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU,
microcode patch size and other factors. There are some
opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some
deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code.

For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.

- Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to
locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows
to measure IPI delivery time precisely"

* tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions
trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions
MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry
x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision
x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat()
x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late
cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()
x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils
x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it
x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack
x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address
cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE
x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask
x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup
cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism
cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up()
cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions
riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
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Revision tags: v6.4, v6.1.35, v6.1.34, v6.1.33, v6.1.32, v6.1.31, v6.1.30
# ad1a4830 17-May-2023 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

init: consolidate prototypes in linux/init.h

The init/main.c file contains some extern declarations for functions
defined in architecture code, and it defines some other functions that are
called fr

init: consolidate prototypes in linux/init.h

The init/main.c file contains some extern declarations for functions
defined in architecture code, and it defines some other functions that are
called from architecture code with a custom prototype. Both of those
result in warnings with 'make W=1':

init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:790:20: error: no previous prototype for 'mem_encrypt_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:792:20: error: no previous prototype for 'poking_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:122:13: error: no previous prototype for 'init_IRQ' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:55:13: error: no previous prototype for 'time_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/x86/kernel/process.c:935:13: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_post_acpi_subsys_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/fork.c:991:20: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_task_cache_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Add prototypes for all of these in include/linux/init.h or another
appropriate header, and remove the duplicate declarations from
architecture specific code.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: declare time_init_early()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519124311.5167221c@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517131102.934196-12-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.29
# 9d349d47 12-May-2023 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

x86/smpboot: Make TSC synchronization function call based

Spin-waiting on the control CPU until the AP reaches the TSC
synchronization is just a waste especially in the case that there is no
synchro

x86/smpboot: Make TSC synchronization function call based

Spin-waiting on the control CPU until the AP reaches the TSC
synchronization is just a waste especially in the case that there is no
synchronization required.

As the synchronization has to run with interrupts disabled the control CPU
part can just be done from a SMP function call. The upcoming AP issues that
call async only in the case that synchronization is required.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205256.148255496@linutronix.de

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Revision tags: v6.1.28, v6.1.27, v6.1.26, v6.3, v6.1.25, v6.1.24, v6.1.23, v6.1.22, v6.1.21, v6.1.20, v6.1.19, v6.1.18, v6.1.17, v6.1.16, v6.1.15, v6.1.14, v6.1.13, v6.2, v6.1.12, v6.1.11, v6.1.10, v6.1.9, v6.1.8, v6.1.7, v6.1.6, v6.1.5, v6.0.19, v6.0.18, v6.1.4, v6.1.3, v6.0.17, v6.1.2, v6.0.16, v6.1.1, v6.0.15, v6.0.14, v6.0.13
# 4f2c0a4a 13-Dec-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-linus


Revision tags: v6.1, v6.0.12, v6.0.11, v6.0.10, v5.15.80, v6.0.9, v5.15.79, v6.0.8, v5.15.78, v6.0.7, v5.15.77, v5.15.76, v6.0.6, v6.0.5, v5.15.75, v6.0.4
# 14e77332 21-Oct-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-next


Revision tags: v6.0.3, v6.0.2, v5.15.74, v5.15.73, v6.0.1, v5.15.72
# 97acb6a8 03-Oct-2022 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Daniele needs 84d4333c1e28 ("misc/mei: Add NULL check to component match
callback functions") in order to merge the DG2 HuC patches.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Daniele needs 84d4333c1e28 ("misc/mei: Add NULL check to component match
callback functions") in order to merge the DG2 HuC patches.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.0, v5.15.71, v5.15.70, v5.15.69, v5.15.68, v5.15.67, v5.15.66, v5.15.65, v5.15.64, v5.15.63, v5.15.62, v5.15.61, v5.15.60
# fc30eea1 04-Aug-2022 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync up. In special to get the drm-intel-gt-next stuff.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v5.15.59
# 8bb5e7f4 02-Aug-2022 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.20 (or 6.0) merge window.


Revision tags: v5.19, v5.15.58, v5.15.57, v5.15.56, v5.15.55
# f83d9396 14-Jul-2022 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging from drm/drm-next for the final fixes that will go
into v5.20.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v5.15.54
# a63f7778 08-Jul-2022 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v5.19-rc5' into next

Merge with mainline to bring up the latest definition from MFD subsystem
needed for Mediatek keypad driver.


Revision tags: v5.15.53
# dd84cfff 04-Jul-2022 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v5.19-rc3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v5.19

A collection of fixes for v5.19, quite large but nothing major -

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v5.19-rc3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v5.19

A collection of fixes for v5.19, quite large but nothing major - a good
chunk of it is more stuff that was identified by mixer-test regarding
event generation.

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Revision tags: v5.15.52, v5.15.51, v5.15.50, v5.15.49
# 2b1333b8 20-Jun-2022 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get new regmap APIs of v5.19-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v5.15.48
# f777316e 15-Jun-2022 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge branch 'topic/ctl-enhancements' into for-next

Pull ALSA control enhancement patches.
One is the faster lookup of control elements, and another is to
introduce the input data validation.

Signe

Merge branch 'topic/ctl-enhancements' into for-next

Pull ALSA control enhancement patches.
One is the faster lookup of control elements, and another is to
introduce the input data validation.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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Revision tags: v5.15.47
# 66da6500 09-Jun-2022 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-fixes-5.19-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

KVM/riscv fixes for 5.19, take #1

- Typo fix in arch/riscv/kvm/vmid.c

- Remove broken reference pattern from MAIN

Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-fixes-5.19-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

KVM/riscv fixes for 5.19, take #1

- Typo fix in arch/riscv/kvm/vmid.c

- Remove broken reference pattern from MAINTAINERS entry

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Revision tags: v5.15.46
# 6e2b347d 08-Jun-2022 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge v5.19-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Let's kick-off the start of the 5.19 fix cycle

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


# 073350da 07-Jun-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.19-rc1' into asoc-5.19

Linux 5.19-rc1


Revision tags: v5.15.45, v5.15.44, v5.15.43, v5.15.42
# ac2ab990 24-May-2022 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'random-5.19-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random

Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
"These updates continue to refine the w

Merge tag 'random-5.19-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random

Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
"These updates continue to refine the work began in 5.17 and 5.18 of
modernizing the RNG's crypto and streamlining and documenting its
code.

New for 5.19, the updates aim to improve entropy collection methods
and make some initial decisions regarding the "premature next" problem
and our threat model. The cloc utility now reports that random.c is
931 lines of code and 466 lines of comments, not that basic metrics
like that mean all that much, but at the very least it tells you that
this is very much a manageable driver now.

Here's a summary of the various updates:

- The random_get_entropy() function now always returns something at
least minimally useful. This is the primary entropy source in most
collectors, which in the best case expands to something like RDTSC,
but prior to this change, in the worst case it would just return 0,
contributing nothing. For 5.19, additional architectures are wired
up, and architectures that are entirely missing a cycle counter now
have a generic fallback path, which uses the highest resolution
clock available from the timekeeping subsystem.

Some of those clocks can actually be quite good, despite the CPU
not having a cycle counter of its own, and going off-core for a
stamp is generally thought to increase jitter, something positive
from the perspective of entropy gathering. Done very early on in
the development cycle, this has been sitting in next getting some
testing for a while now and has relevant acks from the archs, so it
should be pretty well tested and fine, but is nonetheless the thing
I'll be keeping my eye on most closely.

- Of particular note with the random_get_entropy() improvements is
MIPS, which, on CPUs that lack the c0 count register, will now
combine the high-speed but short-cycle c0 random register with the
lower-speed but long-cycle generic fallback path.

- With random_get_entropy() now always returning something useful,
the interrupt handler now collects entropy in a consistent
construction.

- Rather than comparing two samples of random_get_entropy() for the
jitter dance, the algorithm now tests many samples, and uses the
amount of differing ones to determine whether or not jitter entropy
is usable and how laborious it must be. The problem with comparing
only two samples was that if the cycle counter was extremely slow,
but just so happened to be on the cusp of a change, the slowness
wouldn't be detected. Taking many samples fixes that to some
degree.

This, combined with the other improvements to random_get_entropy(),
should make future unification of /dev/random and /dev/urandom
maybe more possible. At the very least, were we to attempt it again
today (we're not), it wouldn't break any of Guenter's test rigs
that broke when we tried it with 5.18. So, not today, but perhaps
down the road, that's something we can revisit.

- We attempt to reseed the RNG immediately upon waking up from system
suspend or hibernation, making use of the various timestamps about
suspend time and such available, as well as the usual inputs such
as RDRAND when available.

- Batched randomness now falls back to ordinary randomness before the
RNG is initialized. This provides more consistent guarantees to the
types of random numbers being returned by the various accessors.

- The "pre-init injection" code is now gone for good. I suspect you
in particular will be happy to read that, as I recall you
expressing your distaste for it a few months ago. Instead, to avoid
a "premature first" issue, while still allowing for maximal amount
of entropy availability during system boot, the first 128 bits of
estimated entropy are used immediately as it arrives, with the next
128 bits being buffered. And, as before, after the RNG has been
fully initialized, it winds up reseeding anyway a few seconds later
in most cases. This resulted in a pretty big simplification of the
initialization code and let us remove various ad-hoc mechanisms
like the ugly crng_pre_init_inject().

- The RNG no longer pretends to handle the "premature next" security
model, something that various academics and other RNG designs have
tried to care about in the past. After an interesting mailing list
thread, these issues are thought to be a) mainly academic and not
practical at all, and b) actively harming the real security of the
RNG by delaying new entropy additions after a potential compromise,
making a potentially bad situation even worse. As well, in the
first place, our RNG never even properly handled the premature next
issue, so removing an incomplete solution to a fake problem was
particularly nice.

This allowed for numerous other simplifications in the code, which
is a lot cleaner as a consequence. If you didn't see it before,
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YmlMGx6+uigkGiZ0@zx2c4.com/ may be a
thread worth skimming through.

- While the interrupt handler received a separate code path years ago
that avoids locks by using per-cpu data structures and a faster
mixing algorithm, in order to reduce interrupt latency, input and
disk events that are triggered in hardirq handlers were still
hitting locks and more expensive algorithms. Those are now
redirected to use the faster per-cpu data structures.

- Rather than having the fake-crypto almost-siphash-based random32
implementation be used right and left, and in many places where
cryptographically secure randomness is desirable, the batched
entropy code is now fast enough to replace that.

- As usual, numerous code quality and documentation cleanups. For
example, the initialization state machine now uses enum symbolic
constants instead of just hard coding numbers everywhere.

- Since the RNG initializes once, and then is always initialized
thereafter, a pretty heavy amount of code used during that
initialization is never used again. It is now completely cordoned
off using static branches and it winds up in the .text.unlikely
section so that it doesn't reduce cache compactness after the RNG
is ready.

- A variety of functions meant for waiting on the RNG to be
initialized were only used by vsprintf, and in not a particularly
optimal way. Replacing that usage with a more ordinary setup made
it possible to remove those functions.

- A cleanup of how we warn userspace about the use of uninitialized
/dev/urandom and uninitialized get_random_bytes() usage.
Interestingly, with the change you merged for 5.18 that attempts to
use jitter (but does not block if it can't), the majority of users
should never see those warnings for /dev/urandom at all now, and
the one for in-kernel usage is mainly a debug thing.

- The file_operations struct for /dev/[u]random now implements
.read_iter and .write_iter instead of .read and .write, allowing it
to also implement .splice_read and .splice_write, which makes
splice(2) work again after it was broken here (and in many other
places in the tree) during the set_fs() removal. This was a bit of
a last minute arrival from Jens that hasn't had as much time to
bake, so I'll be keeping my eye on this as well, but it seems
fairly ordinary. Unfortunately, read_iter() is around 3% slower
than read() in my tests, which I'm not thrilled about. But Jens and
Al, spurred by this observation, seem to be making progress in
removing the bottlenecks on the iter paths in the VFS layer in
general, which should remove the performance gap for all drivers.

- Assorted other bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations.

- A small SipHash cleanup"

* tag 'random-5.19-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (49 commits)
random: check for signals after page of pool writes
random: wire up fops->splice_{read,write}_iter()
random: convert to using fops->write_iter()
random: convert to using fops->read_iter()
random: unify batched entropy implementations
random: move randomize_page() into mm where it belongs
random: remove mostly unused async readiness notifier
random: remove get_random_bytes_arch() and add rng_has_arch_random()
random: move initialization functions out of hot pages
random: make consistent use of buf and len
random: use proper return types on get_random_{int,long}_wait()
random: remove extern from functions in header
random: use static branch for crng_ready()
random: credit architectural init the exact amount
random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init()
random: use proper jiffies comparison macro
random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness
random: move initialization out of reseeding hot path
random: avoid initializing twice in credit race
random: use symbolic constants for crng_init states
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Revision tags: v5.18, v5.15.41, v5.15.40, v5.15.39, v5.15.38, v5.15.37, v5.15.36, v5.15.35, v5.15.34
# 3bd4abc0 08-Apr-2022 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

x86/tsc: Use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is suboptimal. Instead, fal

x86/tsc: Use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is suboptimal. Instead, fallback
to calling random_get_entropy_fallback(), which isn't extremely high
precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but is certainly better than
returning zero all the time.

If CONFIG_X86_TSC=n, then it's possible for the kernel to run on systems
without RDTSC, such as 486 and certain 586, so the fallback code is only
required for that case.

As well, fix up both the new function and the get_cycles() function from
which it was derived to use cpu_feature_enabled() rather than
boot_cpu_has(), and use !IS_ENABLED() instead of #ifndef.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org

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