Merge tag 'v4.15' into x86/pti, to be able to merge dependent changes

Time has come to switch PTI development over to a v4.15 base - we'll still
try to make sure that all PTI fixes backport cleanly to v4.14 and earlier.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c

@@ -264,21 +264,6 @@ static void early_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 15)
 		clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
-	/*
-	 * P4s have a "fast strings" feature which causes single-
-	 * stepping REP instructions to only generate a #DB on
-	 * cache-line boundaries.
-	 *
-	 * Ingo Molnar reported a Pentium D (model 6) and a Xeon
-	 * (model 2) with the same problem.
-	 */
-	if (c->x86 == 15)
-		if (msr_clear_bit(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE,
-				  MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FAST_STRING_BIT) > 0)
-			pr_info("kmemcheck: Disabling fast string operations\n");
-#endif
-
 	/*
 	 * If fast string is not enabled in IA32_MISC_ENABLE for any reason,
 	 * clear the fast string and enhanced fast string CPU capabilities.