[GIT PULL] x86/misc for v6.9-rc1

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 11 2024 - 12:56:52 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull a pile of the miscellaneous, garden variety fixes for v6.9-rc1.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d:

Linux 6.8-rc1 (2024-01-21 14:11:32 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1

for you to fetch changes up to d54e56f31a34fa38fcb5e91df609f9633419a79a:

x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check (2024-02-26 23:41:30 +0100)

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- Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes (or
not) a NMI handler

- Ratelimit unknown NMIs messages in order to not potentially slow down
the machine

- Other fixlets

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Borislav Petkov (AMD) (3):
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=off
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add Closes tag
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add C++ tail comments exception

Breno Leitao (1):
x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check

Namhyung Kim (1):
x86/nmi: Rate limit unknown NMI messages

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 1 +
Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 8 +++---
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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