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# 8ebc80a2 17-Mar-2025 Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>

Merge tag 'v6.6.83' into for/openbmc/dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.83 stable release

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Merge tag 'v6.6.83' into for/openbmc/dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.83 stable release

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Revision tags: v6.6.83, v6.6.82, v6.6.81
# bd8dd646 04-Mar-2025 Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>

x86/cpu: Properly parse CPUID leaf 0x2 TLB descriptor 0x63

commit f6bdaab79ee4228a143ee1b4cb80416d6ffc0c63 upstream.

CPUID leaf 0x2's one-byte TLB descriptors report the number of entries
for speci

x86/cpu: Properly parse CPUID leaf 0x2 TLB descriptor 0x63

commit f6bdaab79ee4228a143ee1b4cb80416d6ffc0c63 upstream.

CPUID leaf 0x2's one-byte TLB descriptors report the number of entries
for specific TLB types, among other properties.

Typically, each emitted descriptor implies the same number of entries
for its respective TLB type(s). An emitted 0x63 descriptor is an
exception: it implies 4 data TLB entries for 1GB pages and 32 data TLB
entries for 2MB or 4MB pages.

For the TLB descriptors parsing code, the entry count for 1GB pages is
encoded at the intel_tlb_table[] mapping, but the 2MB/4MB entry count is
totally ignored.

Update leaf 0x2's parsing logic 0x2 to account for 32 data TLB entries
for 2MB/4MB pages implied by the 0x63 descriptor.

Fixes: e0ba94f14f74 ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-4-darwi@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# 672bc566 04-Mar-2025 Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>

x86/cpu: Validate CPUID leaf 0x2 EDX output

commit 1881148215c67151b146450fb89ec22fd92337a7 upstream.

CPUID leaf 0x2 emits one-byte descriptors in its four output registers
EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX.

x86/cpu: Validate CPUID leaf 0x2 EDX output

commit 1881148215c67151b146450fb89ec22fd92337a7 upstream.

CPUID leaf 0x2 emits one-byte descriptors in its four output registers
EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX. For these descriptors to be valid, the most
significant bit (MSB) of each register must be clear.

Leaf 0x2 parsing at intel.c only validated the MSBs of EAX, EBX, and
ECX, but left EDX unchecked.

Validate EDX's most-significant bit as well.

Fixes: e0ba94f14f74 ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-3-darwi@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.6.80, v6.6.79, v6.6.78, v6.6.77, v6.6.76, v6.6.75, v6.6.74, v6.6.73, v6.6.72, v6.6.71, v6.12.9, v6.6.70
# ed454332 05-Jan-2025 Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>

Merge tag 'v6.6.69' into for/openbmc/dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.69 stable release


Revision tags: v6.12.8, v6.6.69, v6.12.7, v6.6.68, v6.12.6, v6.6.67, v6.12.5, v6.6.66, v6.6.65, v6.12.4, v6.6.64, v6.12.3, v6.12.2, v6.6.63, v6.12.1, v6.12, 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
# ff4dff0b 29-May-2024 Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines

commit 34b3fc558b537bdf99644dcde539e151716f6331 upstream.

The outer if () should have been dropped when switching to c->x86_vfm

x86/cpu/intel: Drop stray FAM6 check with new Intel CPU model defines

commit 34b3fc558b537bdf99644dcde539e151716f6331 upstream.

The outer if () should have been dropped when switching to c->x86_vfm.

Fixes: 6568fc18c2f6 ("x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529183605.17520-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# 84068486 12-Nov-2024 Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

x86/cpu: Add Lunar Lake to list of CPUs with a broken MONITOR implementation

[ Upstream commit c9a4b55431e5220347881e148725bed69c84e037 ]

Under some conditions, MONITOR wakeups on Lunar Lake proces

x86/cpu: Add Lunar Lake to list of CPUs with a broken MONITOR implementation

[ Upstream commit c9a4b55431e5220347881e148725bed69c84e037 ]

Under some conditions, MONITOR wakeups on Lunar Lake processors
can be lost, resulting in significant user-visible delays.

Add Lunar Lake to X86_BUG_MONITOR so that wake_up_idle_cpu()
always sends an IPI, avoiding this potential delay.

Reported originally here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219364

[ dhansen: tweak subject ]

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a4aa8842a3c3bfdb7fe9807710eef159cbf0e705.1731463305.git.len.brown%40intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.6.32
# fe48d032 20-May-2024 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines

[ Upstream commit 6568fc18c2f62b4f35092e9680fe39f3500f4767 ]

New CPU #defines encode vendor and family as well as model.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lu

x86/cpu/intel: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines

[ Upstream commit 6568fc18c2f62b4f35092e9680fe39f3500f4767 ]

New CPU #defines encode vendor and family as well as model.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240520224620.9480-29-tony.luck%40intel.com
Stable-dep-of: c9a4b55431e5 ("x86/cpu: Add Lunar Lake to list of CPUs with a broken MONITOR implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: 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
# 816ffd28 13-Mar-2024 Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>

Merge tag 'v6.6.21' into dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.21 stable release


Revision tags: v6.6.16, v6.6.15
# dff60a55 31-Jan-2024 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

x86/cpu/intel: Detect TME keyid bits before setting MTRR mask registers

commit 6890cb1ace350b4386c8aee1343dc3b3ddd214da upstream.

MKTME repurposes the high bit of physical address to key id for enc

x86/cpu/intel: Detect TME keyid bits before setting MTRR mask registers

commit 6890cb1ace350b4386c8aee1343dc3b3ddd214da upstream.

MKTME repurposes the high bit of physical address to key id for encryption
key and, even though MAXPHYADDR in CPUID[0x80000008] remains the same,
the valid bits in the MTRR mask register are based on the reduced number
of physical address bits.

detect_tme() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c detects TME and subtracts
it from the total usable physical bits, but it is called too late.
Move the call to early_init_intel() so that it is called in setup_arch(),
before MTRRs are setup.

This fixes boot on TDX-enabled systems, which until now only worked with
"disable_mtrr_cleanup". Without the patch, the values written to the
MTRRs mask registers were 52-bit wide (e.g. 0x000fffff_80000800) and
the writes failed; with the patch, the values are 46-bit wide, which
matches the reduced MAXPHYADDR that is shown in /proc/cpuinfo.

Reported-by: Zixi Chen <zixchen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131230902.1867092-3-pbonzini%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Revision tags: 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
# c900529f 12-Sep-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

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


Revision tags: v6.5.2, v6.1.51, v6.5.1
# 1ac731c5 30-Aug-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.6 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.1.50
# 42a7f6e3 28-Aug-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.6_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislav Petkov:
"The first, cleanup part of the microcode lo

Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.6_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislav Petkov:
"The first, cleanup part of the microcode loader reorg tglx has been
working on. The other part wasn't fully ready in time so it will
follow on later.

This part makes the loader core code as it is practically enabled on
pretty much every baremetal machine so there's no need to have the
Kconfig items.

In addition, there are cleanups which prepare for future feature
enablement"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.6_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode: Remove remaining references to CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD
x86/microcode/intel: Remove pointless mutex
x86/microcode/intel: Remove debug code
x86/microcode: Move core specific defines to local header
x86/microcode/intel: Rename get_datasize() since its used externally
x86/microcode: Make reload_early_microcode() static
x86/microcode: Include vendor headers into microcode.h
x86/microcode/intel: Move microcode functions out of cpu/intel.c
x86/microcode: Hide the config knob
x86/mm: Remove unused microcode.h include
x86/microcode: Remove microcode_mutex
x86/microcode/AMD: Rip out static buffers

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Revision tags: v6.5, v6.1.49, v6.1.48, v6.1.46
# 82ad097b 12-Aug-2023 Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>

x86/microcode: Include vendor headers into microcode.h

Currently vendor specific headers are included explicitly when used in
common code. Instead, include the vendor specific headers in
microcode.h

x86/microcode: Include vendor headers into microcode.h

Currently vendor specific headers are included explicitly when used in
common code. Instead, include the vendor specific headers in
microcode.h, and include that in all usages.

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.776541545@linutronix.de

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# 4da2131f 12-Aug-2023 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

x86/microcode/intel: Move microcode functions out of cpu/intel.c

There is really no point to have that in the CPUID evaluation code. Move it
into the Intel-specific microcode handling along with the

x86/microcode/intel: Move microcode functions out of cpu/intel.c

There is really no point to have that in the CPUID evaluation code. Move it
into the Intel-specific microcode handling along with the data
structures, defines and helpers required by it. The exports need to stay
for IFS.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.719202319@linutronix.de

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Revision tags: v6.1.45, v6.1.44, v6.1.43, v6.1.42, v6.1.41, v6.1.40, v6.1.39
# 50501936 17-Jul-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in updates to shared infrastructure.


Revision tags: v6.1.38, v6.1.37, v6.1.36
# e80b5003 27-Jun-2023 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'for-6.5/apple' into for-linus

- improved support for Keychron K8 keyboard (Lasse Brun)


Revision tags: v6.4, v6.1.35
# db6da59c 15-Jun-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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

Backmerging to sync drm-misc-next-fixes with drm-misc-next.

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


Revision tags: v6.1.34
# 03c60192 12-Jun-2023 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patche

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patches depend on these helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.33
# 5c680050 06-Jun-2023 Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4-rc4' into wpan-next/staging

Linux 6.4-rc4


# 9ff17e6b 05-Jun-2023 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

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

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko

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

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

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

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Revision tags: v6.1.32, v6.1.31, v6.1.30
# 9c3a985f 17-May-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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

Backmerge to get some hwmon dependencies.

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


Revision tags: v6.1.29
# 50282fd5 12-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

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

Let's bring 6.4-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to start the new fix cycle.

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


Revision tags: v6.1.28
# ff32fcca 09-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

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

Start the 6.5 release cycle.

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


Revision tags: v6.1.27
# b6a78285 27-Apr-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

- Son

Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

- Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

- Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

- My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
together all types of supported module memory types in one data
structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
specific dynamic debug information.

Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:

a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
active with no clear solution in sight.

b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
with no clear solution in sight [1].

In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
module: extract patient module check into helper
modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
interconnect: remove module-related code
interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
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Revision tags: v6.1.26
# e3420f98 25-Apr-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.4_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 cpu model updates from Borislav Petkov:

- Add Emerald Rapids to the list of Intel models supporti

Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.4_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 cpu model updates from Borislav Petkov:

- Add Emerald Rapids to the list of Intel models supporting PPIN

- Finally use a CPUID bit for split lock detection instead of
enumerating every model

- Make sure automatic IBRS is set on AMD, even though the AP bringup
code does that now by replicating the MSR which contains the switch

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.4_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Add Xeon Emerald Rapids to list of CPUs that support PPIN
x86/split_lock: Enumerate architectural split lock disable bit
x86/CPU/AMD: Make sure EFER[AIBRSE] is set

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