[GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v6.8

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 07 2024 - 17:08:52 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull the x86/paravirt pile of changes for v6.8.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit b85ea95d086471afb4ad062012a4d73cd328fa86:

Linux 6.7-rc1 (2023-11-12 16:19:07 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_paravirt_for_v6.8

for you to fetch changes up to 7991ed43587d1106315208cc289c851d6915d4a3:

x86/alternative: Correct feature bit debug output (2023-12-30 12:25:55 +0100)

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- Replace the paravirt patching functionality using the alternatives
infrastructure and remove the former

- Misc other improvements

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Borislav Petkov (AMD) (1):
x86/alternative: Correct feature bit debug output

Hou Wenlong (2):
x86/paravirt: Use relative reference for the original instruction offset
x86/paravirt: Make the struct paravirt_patch_site packed

Juergen Gross (5):
x86/paravirt: Introduce ALT_NOT_XEN
x86/paravirt: Move some functions and defines to alternative.c
x86/alternative: Add indirect call patching
x86/paravirt: Switch mixed paravirt/alternative calls to alternatives
x86/paravirt: Remove no longer needed paravirt patching code

arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 30 ++++++-
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 79 +++++-------------
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 87 ++++++-------------
arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 4 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h | 12 ---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 134 +++++++++++++++---------------
arch/x86/kernel/callthunks.c | 17 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 20 ++---
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 54 ++----------
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 13 ---
arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/xen/irq.c | 2 +-
13 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 289 deletions(-)


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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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