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Jerry Hoemann 77fbdd1e2a watchdog: hpwdt: Remove legacy NMI sourcing. 
commit 2b3d89b402 upstream.

Gen8 and prior Proliant systems supported the "CRU" interface
to firmware.  This interfaces allows linux to "call back" into firmware
to source the cause of an NMI.  This feature isn't fully utilized
as the actual source of the NMI isn't printed, the driver only
indicates that the source couldn't be determined when the call
fails.

With the advent of Gen9, iCRU replaces the CRU. The call back
feature is no longer available in firmware.  To be compatible and
not attempt to call back into firmware on system not supporting CRU,
the SMBIOS table is consulted to determine if it is safe to
make the call back or not.

This results in about half of the driver code being devoted
to either making CRU calls or determing if it is safe to make
CRU calls.  As noted, the driver isn't really using the results of
the CRU calls.

Furthermore, as a consequence of the Spectre security issue, the
BIOS/EFI calls are being wrapped into Spectre-disabling section.
Removing the call back in hpwdt_pretimeout assists in this effort.

As the CRU sourcing of the NMI isn't required for handling the
NMI and there are security concerns with making the call back, remove
the legacy (pre Gen9) NMI sourcing and the DMI code to determine if
the system had the CRU interface.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-03-15 10:54:22 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: fix backward migration with async_PF 2018-03-11 16:23:23 +01:00
block blk-mq: don't call io sched's .requeue_request when requeueing rq to ->dispatch 2018-03-08 22:41:20 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - Fix race around ctx->rcvused by making it atomic_t 2018-03-03 10:24:29 +01:00
Documentation KVM: x86: fix backward migration with async_PF 2018-03-11 16:23:23 +01:00
drivers watchdog: hpwdt: Remove legacy NMI sourcing. 2018-03-15 10:54:22 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs direct-io: Fix sleep in atomic due to sync AIO 2018-03-08 22:41:06 -08:00
include nospec: Allow index argument to have const-qualified type 2018-03-08 22:41:22 -08:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel bpf: allow xadd only on aligned memory 2018-03-11 16:23:22 +01:00
lib lib/mpi: Fix umul_ppmm() for MIPS64r6 2018-03-03 10:24:29 +01:00
mm mm/frame_vector.c: release a semaphore in 'get_vaddr_frames()' 2018-03-03 10:24:21 +01:00
net tcp: purge write queue upon RST 2018-03-08 22:41:17 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -none 2018-02-25 11:07:58 +01:00
security selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded 2018-02-25 11:07:49 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix pincfg at resume on Lenovo T470 dock 2018-03-08 22:41:02 -08:00
tools bpf: allow xadd only on aligned memory 2018-03-11 16:23:22 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-03-08 22:41:24 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS kmemcheck: rip it out 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: move "_all" target out of $(KBUILD_SRC) conditional 2018-03-15 10:54:21 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.