[PATCH 6.8 0/5] 6.8.1-rc1 review

[Sasha Levin]

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

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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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