Merge pull request #34 from gibsson/4.9-2.0.x-imx

Merge v4.9.126 into 4.9-2.0.x-imx

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu

@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
 		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
 		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
 		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
 Date:		January 2018
 Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
 Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
@@ -367,3 +368,26 @@ Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
 		"Not affected"	  CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
 		"Vulnerable"	  CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
 		"Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
+
+		Details about the l1tf file can be found in
+		Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
+
+What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
+Date:		June 2018
+Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:	Control Symetric Multi Threading (SMT)
+
+		active:  Tells whether SMT is active (enabled and siblings online)
+
+		control: Read/write interface to control SMT. Possible
+			 values:
+
+			 "on"		SMT is enabled
+			 "off"		SMT is disabled
+			 "forceoff"	SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed.
+			 "notsupported" SMT is not supported by the CPU
+
+			 If control status is "forceoff" or "notsupported" writes
+			 are rejected.

Documentation/Changes

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  3.2              gcc --version
 GNU make               3.80             make --version
 binutils               2.12             ld -v
 util-linux             2.10o            fdformat --version
-module-init-tools      0.9.10           depmod -V
+kmod                   13               depmod -V
 e2fsprogs              1.41.4           e2fsck -V
 jfsutils               1.1.3            fsck.jfs -V
 reiserfsprogs          3.6.3            reiserfsck -V
@@ -143,12 +143,6 @@ is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` and you have no way to rebuild and
 reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
 with ksymoops.
 
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-A new module loader is now in the kernel that requires ``module-init-tools``
-to use.  It is backward compatible with the 2.4.x series kernels.
-
 Mkinitrd
 --------
 
@@ -363,16 +357,17 @@ Util-linux
 
 - <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>
 
+Kmod
+----
+
+- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/>
+- <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git>
+
 Ksymoops
 --------
 
 - <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/>
 
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-- <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/>
-
 Mkinitrd
 --------
 

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 Required properties:
 
-- compatible: should be "qca,qca8337"
+- compatible: should be one of:
+    "qca,qca8334"
+    "qca,qca8337"
+
 - #size-cells: must be 0
 - #address-cells: must be 1
 
@@ -14,6 +17,20 @@ port and PHY id, each subnode describing a port needs to have a valid phandle
 referencing the internal PHY connected to it. The CPU port of this switch is
 always port 0.
 
+A CPU port node has the following optional node:
+
+- fixed-link            : Fixed-link subnode describing a link to a non-MDIO
+                          managed entity. See
+                          Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt
+                          for details.
+
+For QCA8K the 'fixed-link' sub-node supports only the following properties:
+
+- 'speed' (integer, mandatory), to indicate the link speed. Accepted
+  values are 10, 100 and 1000
+- 'full-duplex' (boolean, optional), to indicate that full duplex is
+  used. When absent, half duplex is assumed.
+
 Example:
 
 
@@ -53,6 +70,10 @@ Example:
 					label = "cpu";
 					ethernet = <&gmac1>;
 					phy-mode = "rgmii";
+					fixed-link {
+						speed = 1000;
+						full-duplex;
+					};
 				};
 
 				port@1 {

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/meson-dwmac.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Required properties on all platforms:
 			- "amlogic,meson6-dwmac"
 			- "amlogic,meson8b-dwmac"
 			- "amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac"
+			- "amlogic,meson-axg-dwmac"
 		Additionally "snps,dwmac" and any applicable more
 		detailed version number described in net/stmmac.txt
 		should be used.

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/meson,pinctrl.txt

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 Required properties for the root node:
  - compatible: one of "amlogic,meson8-cbus-pinctrl"
 		      "amlogic,meson8b-cbus-pinctrl"
+		      "amlogic,meson8m2-cbus-pinctrl"
 		      "amlogic,meson8-aobus-pinctrl"
 		      "amlogic,meson8b-aobus-pinctrl"
+		      "amlogic,meson8m2-aobus-pinctrl"
 		      "amlogic,meson-gxbb-periphs-pinctrl"
 		      "amlogic,meson-gxbb-aobus-pinctrl"
  - reg: address and size of registers controlling irq functionality

Documentation/index.rst

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Contents:
    :maxdepth: 2
 
    kernel-documentation
+   l1tf
    development-process/index
    dev-tools/tools
    driver-api/index

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2010,10 +2010,84 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
 			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
 
+	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
+			CVE-2018-3620.
+
+			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
+
+			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
+			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
+				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
+			never:	Disables the mitigation
+
+			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
+
 	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
 			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
 			Default is 1 (enabled)
 
+	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
+			      affected CPUs
+
+			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
+			enabled and cannot be disabled.
+
+			full
+				Provides all available mitigations for the
+				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
+				enables all mitigations in the
+				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
+
+				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
+				sysfs interface is still possible after
+				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
+				when the first VM is started in a
+				potentially insecure configuration,
+				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
+
+			full,force
+				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
+				flush runtime control. Implies the
+				'nosmt=force' command line option.
+				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
+
+			flush
+				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
+				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
+				L1D flush.
+
+				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
+				sysfs interface is still possible after
+				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
+				when the first VM is started in a
+				potentially insecure configuration,
+				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
+
+			flush,nosmt
+
+				Disables SMT and enables the default
+				hypervisor mitigation.
+
+				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
+				sysfs interface is still possible after
+				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
+				when the first VM is started in a
+				potentially insecure configuration,
+				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
+
+			flush,nowarn
+				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
+				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
+				insecure configuration.
+
+			off
+				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
+				emit any warnings.
+
+			Default is 'flush'.
+
+			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
+
 	l2cr=		[PPC]
 
 	l3cr=		[PPC]
@@ -2694,6 +2768,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
 
+			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
+			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
+				     via the sysfs control file.
+
 	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
 			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
 			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
@@ -4023,6 +4101,23 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	spia_pedr=
 	spia_peddr=
 
+	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
+			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
+
+			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
+			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
+			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
+			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
+
+			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
+				   for both kernel and userspace
+			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
+				   for both kernel and userspace
+			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
+				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
+				   to allow userspace to register its
+				   interest in being mitigated too.
+
 	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
 			override the default stack gap protection. The value
 			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior