6.8.1-rc1 review

[PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Sasha Levin 1 year, 11 months ago

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let me know.

Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
        https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.8.y&id2=v6.8
or in the git tree and branch at:
        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

Thanks,
Sasha

-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Pawan Gupta (4):
  x86/mmio: Disable KVM mitigation when X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF is set
  Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDS
  x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)
  KVM/x86: Export RFDS_NO and RFDS_CLEAR to guests

Sasha Levin (1):
  Linux 6.8.1-rc1

 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu      |   1 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst   |   1 +
 .../hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst        | 104 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  21 ++++
 Makefile                                      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |  11 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h              |   8 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                    |  92 +++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |  38 ++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            |   5 +-
 drivers/base/cpu.c                            |   3 +
 include/linux/cpu.h                           |   2 +
 13 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst

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2.43.0

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Bagas Sanjaya 1 year, 11 months ago

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 

Successfully compiled and installed the kernel on my computer (Acer
Aspire E15, Intel Core i3 Haswell). No noticeable regressions.

Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Luna Jernberg 1 year, 11 months ago

Works fine on my Arch Linux desktop with model name    : AMD Ryzen 5
5600 6-Core Processor

Tested-by: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com>

Den tors 14 mars 2024 kl 09:22 skrev Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>:
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> > There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
>
> Successfully compiled and installed the kernel on my computer (Acer
> Aspire E15, Intel Core i3 Haswell). No noticeable regressions.
>
> Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
>
> --
> An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Mark Brown 1 year, 10 months ago

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.

Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Florian Fainelli 1 year, 11 months ago

Hi Sasha,

On 3/13/24 09:30, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 
> Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>          https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.8.y&id2=v6.8
> or in the git tree and branch at:
>          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.

Could you and Greg make sure you share the same CC list? I am usually 
copied by Greg on stable release candidates, but a whole lot people are 
not. This makes it easy to miss those.

Thanks! With that:

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
BMIPS_GENERIC:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Sasha Levin 1 year, 10 months ago

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 02:24:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On 3/13/24 09:30, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>
>>This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
>>There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>let me know.
>>
>>Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024.
>>Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>>The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.8.y&id2=v6.8
>>or in the git tree and branch at:
>>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y
>>and the diffstat can be found below.
>
>Could you and Greg make sure you share the same CC list? I am usually 
>copied by Greg on stable release candidates, but a whole lot people 
>are not. This makes it easy to miss those.

Yup, will do. I didn't need to do this for a few years so our scripts
grew a bit out of sync.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Naresh Kamboju 1 year, 11 months ago

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 22:00, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
>
> Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.8.y&id2=v6.8
> or in the git tree and branch at:
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> Thanks,
> Sasha

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Build
* kernel: 6.8.1-rc1
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-6.8.y
* git commit: aad69864e4400284b2792c16361be9d38237348b
* git describe: v6.8-rc7-266-gaad69864e440
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.8.y/build/v6.8-rc7-266-gaad69864e440/

## Test Regressions (compared to v6.8)

## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.8)

## Test Fixes (compared to v6.8)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.8)

## Test result summary
total: 245920, pass: 214243, fail: 2828, skip: 28849, xfail: 0

## Build Summary
* arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 133 total, 129 passed, 4 failed
* arm64: 41 total, 40 passed, 1 failed
* i386: 33 total, 28 passed, 5 failed
* mips: 26 total, 23 passed, 3 failed
* parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed
* powerpc: 36 total, 28 passed, 8 failed
* riscv: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* s390: 13 total, 13 passed, 0 failed
* sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 8 total, 8 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 37 total, 33 passed, 4 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-drivers-dma-buf
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-exec
* kselftest-filesystems
* kselftest-filesystems-binderfs
* kselftest-filesystems-epoll
* kselftest-firmware
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-ftrace
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-ir
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kexec
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-lib
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-memory-hotplug
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mm
* kselftest-mount
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-net
* kselftest-net-forwarding
* kselftest-net-mptcp
* kselftest-netfilter
* kselftest-nsfs
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-pid_namespace
* kselftest-pidfd
* kselftest-proc
* kselftest-pstore
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-splice
* kselftest-static_keys
* kselftest-sync
* kselftest-sysctl
* kselftest-tc-testing
* kselftest-timens
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-watchdog
* kselftest-x86
* kselftest-zram
* kunit
* kvm-unit-tests
* libgpiod
* log-parser-boot
* log-parser-test
* ltp-cap_bounds
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-cpuhotplug
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-dio
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-filecaps
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-io
* ltp-ipc
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-securebits
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-smoketest
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* perf
* rcutorture

--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

Re: [PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

Posted by Ron Economos 1 year, 11 months ago

On 3/13/24 9:30 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.8.1 release.
> There are 5 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
>
> Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 04:28:11 PM UTC 2024.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>          https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.8.y&id2=v6.8
> or in the git tree and branch at:
>          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.8.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> Thanks,
> Sasha

Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).

Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>