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 -- 2.5.5
