[Xenial][SRU][Pull] Xenial update: 4.4.202 upstream stable release

Connor Kuehl connor.kuehl at canonical.com
Tue Nov 19 22:06:13 UTC 2019


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853177

NOTE: This pull request is based on another pending pull request that has been
sent to this mailing list. Please apply:

    * [Xenial][SRU][Pull] Xenial update: 4.4.201 upstream stable release"

before applying this one.

Please note that the following commits from this upstream Linux stable update
were dropped in favor of the UBUNTU SAUCE equivalents:

* KVM: Introduce kvm_get_arch_capabilities()
* KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
* kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported
* KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 code
* x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR
* x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()
* x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default
* x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort
* x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort
* kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled
* x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
* x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
* x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
* x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure

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The following changes since commit 5f171052d06ef1b18d0e8fbb14ba41cbc1d4c350:

  UBUNTU: upstream stable to v4.4.201 (2019-11-18 14:55:45 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.launchpad.net/~connork/+git/xenial update-to-4.4.202

for you to fetch changes up to fe3a2f0999160788fd37d7b3973eb53ee93a2b28:

  UBUNTU: upstream stable to v4.4.202 (2019-11-19 09:50:56 -0800)

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Connor Kuehl (1):
      UBUNTU: upstream stable to v4.4.202

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
      Linux 4.4.202

Jonas Gorski (1):
      MIPS: BCM63XX: fix switch core reset on BCM6368

Josh Poimboeuf (1):
      x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs

Junaid Shahid (1):
      kvm: mmu: Don't read PDPTEs when paging is not enabled

Michael Ellerman (1):
      powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian options

Nicholas Piggin (2):
      powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain
      powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper

 Makefile                      |  2 +-
 arch/mips/bcm63xx/reset.c     |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Makefile         | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
 arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper     | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c    |  4 ----
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c            |  4 ++--
 debian.master/upstream-stable |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)



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