Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "x86 CPU features support:
   - Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
     (H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
   - x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
   - Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
   - Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
     Jackman)
   - Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
   - Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
   - Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)

  Percpu code:
   - Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
     (Brian Gerst)
   - Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
   - Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
   - Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)

  MM:
   - Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
     instruction (Rik van Riel)
   - Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
   - PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
     Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
   - Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
     (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
   - Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
   - Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
     (Matthew Wilcox)

  KASLR:
   - x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
     BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
     Singh)

  CPU bugs:
   - Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
   - speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
   - speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
     Gupta)
   - RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
     Gupta)

  System calls:
   - Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
   - Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)

  Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
   - selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
   - selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
   - selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling

  AMD SMN access updates:
   - Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
   - Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
   - Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)

  Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
   - Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
   - ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
   - intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
   - Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()

  Build system:
   - Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
   - Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)

  Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
   - Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
   - Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
   - Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
   - Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
   - Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
   - Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
   - Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
   - Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
   - Remove old STA2x11 support
   - Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit

  Headers:
   - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
     headers (Thomas Huth)

  Assembly code & machine code patching:
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
     Poimboeuf)
   - x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
   - KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
   - x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
   - x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
     <asm/asm.h> (Uros Bizjak)
   - Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
   - Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
     instructions (Uros Bizjak)

  Earlyprintk:
   - Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)

  NMI handler:
   - Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in
     nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)

  Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
   - by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
     Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
     Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
     Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
     Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
     Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
     Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
     Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
  zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
  x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
  x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
  perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
  x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
  x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
  x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
  x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
  x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
  x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
  x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
  x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
  x86/head/64: Avoid Clang < 17 stack protector in startup code
  x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
  x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
  x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
  x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
  x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
  ...

6 files changed, 16 insertions, 78 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh b/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9459ca4f0f11..000000000000
--- a/scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-# This requires GCC 8.1 or better.  Specifically, we require
-# -mstack-protector-guard-reg, added by
-# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81708
-
-echo "int foo(void) { char X[200]; return 3; }" | $* -S -x c -m32 -O0 -fstack-protector -mstack-protector-guard-reg=fs -mstack-protector-guard-symbol=__stack_chk_guard - -o - 2> /dev/null | grep -q "%fs"
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh b/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f680bb01aeeb..000000000000
--- a/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-echo "int foo(void) { char X[200]; return 3; }" | $* -S -x c -m64 -O0 -mcmodel=kernel -fno-PIE -fstack-protector - -o - 2> /dev/null | grep -q "%gs"
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
index 13eb8b3901b8..8f7c4fb78c2c 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ def get_current_task(cpu):
             var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("(struct task_struct *)cpu_tasks[0].task")
             return var_ptr.dereference()
         else:
-            var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&pcpu_hot.current_task")
+            var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&current_task")
             return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference()
     elif utils.is_target_arch("aarch64"):
         current_task_addr = gdb.parse_and_eval("(unsigned long)$SP_EL0")
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 03852da3d249..4b0234e4b12f 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
  * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
  *
- * Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] [--absolute-percpu]  in.map > out.S
+ * Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] in.map > out.S
  *
  *      Table compression uses all the unused char codes on the symbols and
  *  maps these to the most used substrings (tokens). For instance, it might
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ struct sym_entry {
 	unsigned long long addr;
 	unsigned int len;
 	unsigned int seq;
-	bool percpu_absolute;
 	unsigned char sym[];
 };
 
@@ -55,14 +54,9 @@ static struct addr_range text_ranges[] = {
 #define text_range_text     (&text_ranges[0])
 #define text_range_inittext (&text_ranges[1])
 
-static struct addr_range percpu_range = {
-	"__per_cpu_start", "__per_cpu_end", -1ULL, 0
-};
-
 static struct sym_entry **table;
 static unsigned int table_size, table_cnt;
 static int all_symbols;
-static int absolute_percpu;
 
 static int token_profit[0x10000];
 
@@ -73,7 +67,7 @@ static unsigned char best_table_len[256];
 
 static void usage(void)
 {
-	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] [--absolute-percpu] in.map > out.S\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: kallsyms [--all-symbols] in.map > out.S\n");
 	exit(1);
 }
 
@@ -164,7 +158,6 @@ static struct sym_entry *read_symbol(FILE *in, char **buf, size_t *buf_len)
 		return NULL;
 
 	check_symbol_range(name, addr, text_ranges, ARRAY_SIZE(text_ranges));
-	check_symbol_range(name, addr, &percpu_range, 1);
 
 	/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
 	 * compressed together */
@@ -175,7 +168,6 @@ static struct sym_entry *read_symbol(FILE *in, char **buf, size_t *buf_len)
 	sym->len = len;
 	sym->sym[0] = type;
 	strcpy(sym_name(sym), name);
-	sym->percpu_absolute = false;
 
 	return sym;
 }
@@ -319,11 +311,6 @@ static int expand_symbol(const unsigned char *data, int len, char *result)
 	return total;
 }
 
-static bool symbol_absolute(const struct sym_entry *s)
-{
-	return s->percpu_absolute;
-}
-
 static int compare_names(const void *a, const void *b)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -455,22 +442,11 @@ static void write_src(void)
 		 */
 
 		long long offset;
-		bool overflow;
-
-		if (!absolute_percpu) {
-			offset = table[i]->addr - relative_base;
-			overflow = offset < 0 || offset > UINT_MAX;
-		} else if (symbol_absolute(table[i])) {
-			offset = table[i]->addr;
-			overflow = offset < 0 || offset > INT_MAX;
-		} else {
-			offset = relative_base - table[i]->addr - 1;
-			overflow = offset < INT_MIN || offset >= 0;
-		}
-		if (overflow) {
+
+		offset = table[i]->addr - relative_base;
+		if (offset < 0 || offset > UINT_MAX) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "kallsyms failure: "
-				"%s symbol value %#llx out of range in relative mode\n",
-				symbol_absolute(table[i]) ? "absolute" : "relative",
+				"relative symbol value %#llx out of range\n",
 				table[i]->addr);
 			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 		}
@@ -725,36 +701,15 @@ static void sort_symbols(void)
 	qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(table[0]), compare_symbols);
 }
 
-static void make_percpus_absolute(void)
-{
-	unsigned int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++)
-		if (symbol_in_range(table[i], &percpu_range, 1)) {
-			/*
-			 * Keep the 'A' override for percpu symbols to
-			 * ensure consistent behavior compared to older
-			 * versions of this tool.
-			 */
-			table[i]->sym[0] = 'A';
-			table[i]->percpu_absolute = true;
-		}
-}
-
 /* find the minimum non-absolute symbol address */
 static void record_relative_base(void)
 {
-	unsigned int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++)
-		if (!symbol_absolute(table[i])) {
-			/*
-			 * The table is sorted by address.
-			 * Take the first non-absolute symbol value.
-			 */
-			relative_base = table[i]->addr;
-			return;
-		}
+	/*
+	 * The table is sorted by address.
+	 * Take the first symbol value.
+	 */
+	if (table_cnt)
+		relative_base = table[0]->addr;
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
@@ -762,7 +717,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	while (1) {
 		static const struct option long_options[] = {
 			{"all-symbols",     no_argument, &all_symbols,     1},
-			{"absolute-percpu", no_argument, &absolute_percpu, 1},
 			{},
 		};
 
@@ -779,8 +733,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	read_map(argv[optind]);
 	shrink_table();
-	if (absolute_percpu)
-		make_percpus_absolute();
 	sort_symbols();
 	record_relative_base();
 	optimize_token_table();
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 56a077d204cf..67e66333bd2a 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -144,10 +144,6 @@ kallsyms()
 		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --all-symbols"
 	fi
 
-	if is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU; then
-		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --absolute-percpu"
-	fi
-
 	info KSYMS "${2}.S"
 	scripts/kallsyms ${kallsymopt} "${1}" > "${2}.S"
 
diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
index 91c91201212c..787868183b84 100755
--- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@ binutils)
 gcc)
 	if [ "$ARCH" = parisc64 ]; then
 		echo 12.0.0
+	elif [ "$SRCARCH" = x86 ]; then
+		echo 8.1.0
 	else
 		echo 5.1.0
 	fi
 	;;
 llvm)
-	if [ "$SRCARCH" = s390 ]; then
+	if [ "$SRCARCH" = s390 -o "$SRCARCH" = x86 ]; then
 		echo 15.0.0
 	elif [ "$SRCARCH" = loongarch ]; then
 		echo 18.0.0