Merge branch 'x86/build' into locking/core, to pick up dependent patches and unify jump-label work

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs

Using macros in inline assembly allows us to work around bugs
in GCC's inlining decis

kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs

Using macros in inline assembly allows us to work around bugs
in GCC's inlining decisions.

Compile macros.S and use it to assemble all C files.
Currently only x86 will use it.

Background:

The inlining pass of GCC doesn't include an assembler, so it's not aware
of basic properties of the generated code, such as its size in bytes,
or that there are such things as discontiuous blocks of code and data
due to the newfangled linker feature called 'sections' ...

Instead GCC uses a lazy and fragile heuristic: it does a linear count of
certain syntactic and whitespace elements in inlined assembly block source
code, such as a count of new-lines and semicolons (!), as a poor substitute
for "code size and complexity".

Unsurprisingly this heuristic falls over and breaks its neck whith certain
common types of kernel code that use inline assembly, such as the frequent
practice of putting useful information into alternative sections.

As a result of this fresh, 20+ years old GCC bug, GCC's inlining decisions
are effectively disabled for inlined functions that make use of such asm()
blocks, because GCC thinks those sections of code are "large" - when in
reality they are often result in just a very low number of machine
instructions.

This absolute lack of inlining provess when GCC comes across such asm()
blocks both increases generated kernel code size and causes performance
overhead, which is particularly noticeable on paravirt kernels, which make
frequent use of these inlining facilities in attempt to stay out of the
way when running on baremetal hardware.

Instead of fixing the compiler we use a workaround: we set an assembly macro
and call it from the inlined assembly block. As a result GCC considers the
inline assembly block as a single instruction. (Which it often isn't but I digress.)

This uglifies and bloats the source code - for example just the refcount
related changes have this impact:

Makefile | 9 +++++++--
arch/x86/Makefile | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/macros.S | 7 +++++++
scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 +++-
scripts/mod/Makefile | 2 ++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Yay readability and maintainability, it's not like assembly code is hard to read
and maintain ...

We also hope that GCC will eventually get fixed, but we are not holding
our breath for that. Yet we are optimistic, it might still happen, any decade now.

[ mingo: Wrote new changelog describing the background. ]

Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003213100.189959-3-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'fix/intel' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into asoc-intel

Merge tag 'v4.15-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.15-rc5

Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-12-14' into gvt-next

- Fix documentation build issues (Randy, Markus)
- Fix timestamp frequency calculation for perf on CNL (Lionel)
- New DMC firmware for Skylake (An

Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-12-14' into gvt-next

- Fix documentation build issues (Randy, Markus)
- Fix timestamp frequency calculation for perf on CNL (Lionel)
- New DMC firmware for Skylake (Anusha)
- GTT flush fixes and other GGTT write track and refactors (Chris)
- Taint kernel when GPU reset fails (Chris)
- Display workarounds organization (Lucas)
- GuC and HuC initialization clean-up and fixes (Michal)
- Other fixes around GuC submission (Michal)
- Execlist clean-ups like caching ELSP reg offset and improving log readability (Chri\
s)
- Many other improvements on our logs and dumps (Chris)
- Restore GT performance in headless mode with DMC loaded (Tvrtko)
- Stop updating legacy fb parameters since FBC is not using anymore (Daniel)
- More selftest improvements (Chris)
- Preemption fixes and improvements (Chris)
- x86/early-quirks improvements for Intel graphics stolen memory. (Joonas, Matthew)
- Other improvements on Stolen Memory code to be resource centric. (Matthew)
- Improvements and fixes on fence allocation/release (Chris).

GVT:

- fixes for two coverity scan errors (Colin)
- mmio switch code refine (Changbin)
- more virtual display dmabuf fixes (Tina/Gustavo)
- misc cleanups (Pei)
- VFIO mdev display dmabuf interface and gvt support (Tina)
- VFIO mdev opregion support/fixes (Tina/Xiong/Chris)
- workload scheduling optimization (Changbin)
- preemption fix and temporal workaround (Zhenyu)
- and misc fixes after refactor (Chris)

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Sync to v4.15-rc3 for security subsystem developers to work against.

Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Chris requested this backmerge for a reconciliation on
drm_print.h between drm-misc-next and drm-intel-next-queued

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rod

Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Chris requested this backmerge for a reconciliation on
drm_print.h between drm-misc-next and drm-intel-next-queued

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

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

We need to pull 66660d4cf21b (drm: add connector info/property for
non-desktop displays [v2]) into drm-misc-next to continue the development
of the display r

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

We need to pull 66660d4cf21b (drm: add connector info/property for
non-desktop displays [v2]) into drm-misc-next to continue the development
of the display rotation series.

Effectively this also pulls 4.15-r2 into drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>

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Merge branch 'fix/amd' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into asoc-amd

Merge tag 'v4.15-rc1' into next-seccomp

Linux 4.15-rc1

Merge branch 'dts-fixes' into omap-for-v4.15/fixes-dt

Merge branch 'soc-fixes' into omap-for-v4.15/fixes

Merge tag 'v4.15-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.15-rc1

* tag 'v4.15-rc1': (12179 commits)
Linux 4.15-rc1
ARM: BUG if jumping to usermode address in kernel mode
m68k/macboing: Fix missed timer ca

Merge tag 'v4.15-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.15-rc1

* tag 'v4.15-rc1': (12179 commits)
Linux 4.15-rc1
ARM: BUG if jumping to usermode address in kernel mode
m68k/macboing: Fix missed timer callback assignment
afs: remove redundant assignment of dvnode to itself
afs: cell: Remove unnecessary code in afs_lookup_cell
afs: Fix signal handling in some file ops
afs: Fix some dentry handling in dir ops and missing key_puts
afs: Make afs_write_begin() avoid writing to a page that's being stored
sched/debug: Fix task state recording/printout
x86/decoder: Add new TEST instruction pattern
x86/PCI: Remove unused HyperTransport interrupt support
x86/umip: Fix insn_get_code_seg_params()'s return value
x86/boot/KASLR: Remove unused variable
genirq/matrix: Make - vs ?: Precedence explicit
irqchip/imgpdc: Use resource_size function on resource object
irqchip/qcom: Fix u32 comparison with value less than zero
ipvlan: Fix insufficient skb linear check for ipv6 icmp
ipvlan: Fix insufficient skb linear check for arp
geneve: only configure or fill UDP_ZERO_CSUM6_RX/TX info when CONFIG_IPV6
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Clear IDDQ_GLOBAL_PWR bit for PHY
...

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Merge tag 'v4.15-rc1' into drm-misc-fixes

Linux 4.15-rc1

Pull in the merge window to resync. Dave didn't get his -fixes pull
landed in time, and now there's another rockchip fix pending, so
fast-fo

Merge tag 'v4.15-rc1' into drm-misc-fixes

Linux 4.15-rc1

Pull in the merge window to resync. Dave didn't get his -fixes pull
landed in time, and now there's another rockchip fix pending, so
fast-forwarding isn't possible, hence backmerge.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 4.15 merge window.

Merge tag 'asoc-v4.15' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Updates for v4.15

The biggest thing this release has been the conversion of the AC98 bus

Merge tag 'asoc-v4.15' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Updates for v4.15

The biggest thing this release has been the conversion of the AC98 bus
to the driver model, that's been a long time coming so thanks to Robert
Jarzmik for his dedication there. Due to there being some AC97 MFD
there's a few fairly large changes in input and the MFD layer, mainly to
the wm97xx driver.

There's also some drivers/drm changes to support the new AMD Stoney
platform, these are shared with the DRM subsystem and should be being
merged via both.

Within the subsystem the overwhelming bulk of the changes is in the
Intel drivers which continue to need lots of cleanups and fixes, this
release they've also gained support for their open source firmware.
There's also some large changs in the core as Morimoto-san continues to
mirror operations into the component level in preparation for conversion
of drivers to that.

- The AC97 bus has finally caught up with the driver model thanks to
some dedicated and persistent work from Robert Jarzmik.
- Continued work from Morimoto-san on moving us towards being able to
use components for everything.
- Lots of cleanups for the Intel platform code, including support for
their open source audio firmware.
- Support for scaling MCLK with sample rate in simple-card.
- Support for AMD Stoney platform.

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Merge tag 'v4.14' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

Linux 4.14

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/platform, to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.14-rc8' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in SPDX markings to avoid annoying merge
problems when some header files get deleted.

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes and resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/x2apic.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into core/objtool, to pick up dependent fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
include/linux/compiler-intel.h
include/uapi/linux/stddef.h

Si

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
include/linux/compiler-intel.h
include/uapi/linux/stddef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

Conflicts:
tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instruc

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

Conflicts:
tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c
tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
tools/perf/util/zlib.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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