[GIT PULL -v2] x86/asm updates for v5.10

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 13 2020 - 05:42:03 EST


Hi Linus,

here's v2 of the x86/asm pull with only the __force_order patch so that
it can go in now. The other one will be sorted out when the matter has
been settled properly.

Please pull,
thx.

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The following changes since commit f75aef392f869018f78cfedf3c320a6b3fcfda6b:

Linux 5.9-rc3 (2020-08-30 16:01:54 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_asm_for_v5.10

for you to fetch changes up to 3e626682046e30282979f7d71e054cd4c00069a7:

x86/asm: Replace __force_order with a memory clobber (2020-10-13 11:23:15 +0200)

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* Replace __force_order dummy variable with a memory clobber to fix LLVM
requiring a definition for former and to prevent memory accesses from
still being cached/reordered. (Arvind Sankar)

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Arvind Sankar (1):
x86/asm: Replace __force_order with a memory clobber

arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 9 ---------
arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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