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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm/include/asm, branch v4.18.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>docs: Fix some broken references</title>
<updated>2018-06-15T21:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-08T18:14:57+00:00</published>
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As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of
them via this script:
	./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix

Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few
false-positives.

Acked-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Charles Keepax &lt;ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of
them via this script:
	./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix

Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few
false-positives.

Acked-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Charles Keepax &lt;ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T18:34:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T18:34:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b357bf6023a948cf6a9472f07a1b0caac0e4f8e8'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small update for KVM:

  ARM:
   - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
   - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor

  s390:
   - cleanups for nested
   - clock handling
   - crypto
   - storage keys
   - control register bits

  x86:
   - many bugfixes
   - implement more Hyper-V super powers
   - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
     emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
   - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
  kvm: fix typo in flag name
  kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
  KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
  KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
  kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
  kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
  kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
  KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
  KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
  KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
  kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
  kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
  KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
  kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
  KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
  KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small update for KVM:

  ARM:
   - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
   - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor

  s390:
   - cleanups for nested
   - clock handling
   - crypto
   - storage keys
   - control register bits

  x86:
   - many bugfixes
   - implement more Hyper-V super powers
   - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
     emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
   - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
  kvm: fix typo in flag name
  kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
  KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
  KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
  kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
  kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
  kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
  KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
  KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
  KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
  kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
  kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
  KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
  kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
  KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
  KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T00:49:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T00:49:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7c00e8ae041b349992047769af741b67379ce19a'/>
<id>7c00e8ae041b349992047769af741b67379ce19a</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here are the main updates for SoC support (besides DT additions) for
  ARM 32- and 64-bit platforms. The branch also contains defconfig
  updates to turn on drivers and options as needed on the various
  platforms.

  The largest parts of the delta are from cleanups moving platform data
  and board file setup of TI platforms to ti-sysc bus drivers. There are
  also some sweeping changes of eeprom and nand setup on Davinci, i.MX
  and other platforms.

  Samsung is removing support for Exynos5440, which was an oddball SoC
  that hasn't been seen much use in designs.

  Renesas is adding support for new SoCs (R-Car E3, RZ/G1C and RZ/N1D).

  Linus Walleij is also removing support for ux500 (Sony Ericsson)
  U8540/9540 SoCs that never made it to significant mass production and
  products"

* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add NXP linux team maillist as i.MX reviewer
  ARM: stm32: Don't select DMA unconditionally on STM32MP157C
  arm64: defconfig: Enable PCIe on msm8996 and db820c
  ARM: pxa3xx: enable external wakeup pins
  ARM: pxa: stargate2: use device properties for at24 eeprom
  arm64: defconfig: Enable HISILICON_LPC
  arm64: defconfig: enable drivers for Poplar support
  arm64: defconfig: Enable UFS on msm8996
  ARM: berlin: switch to SPDX license identifier
  arm: berlin: remove non-necessary flush_cache_all()
  ARM: berlin: extend BG2CD Kconfig entry
  OMAP: CLK: CLKSRC: Add suspend resume hooks
  ARM: AM43XX: Add functions to save/restore am43xx control registers
  ASoC: ams_delta: use GPIO lookup table
  ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: add GPIO lookup tables
  bus: ti-sysc: Fix optional clocks array access
  ARM: OMAP2+: Make sure LOGICRETSTATE bits are not cleared
  ARM: OMAP2+: prm44xx: Inroduce cpu_pm notifiers for context save/restore
  ARM: OMAP2+: prm44xx: Introduce context save/restore for am43 PRCM IO
  ARM: OMAP2+: powerdomain: Introduce cpu_pm notifiers for context save/restore
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here are the main updates for SoC support (besides DT additions) for
  ARM 32- and 64-bit platforms. The branch also contains defconfig
  updates to turn on drivers and options as needed on the various
  platforms.

  The largest parts of the delta are from cleanups moving platform data
  and board file setup of TI platforms to ti-sysc bus drivers. There are
  also some sweeping changes of eeprom and nand setup on Davinci, i.MX
  and other platforms.

  Samsung is removing support for Exynos5440, which was an oddball SoC
  that hasn't been seen much use in designs.

  Renesas is adding support for new SoCs (R-Car E3, RZ/G1C and RZ/N1D).

  Linus Walleij is also removing support for ux500 (Sony Ericsson)
  U8540/9540 SoCs that never made it to significant mass production and
  products"

* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add NXP linux team maillist as i.MX reviewer
  ARM: stm32: Don't select DMA unconditionally on STM32MP157C
  arm64: defconfig: Enable PCIe on msm8996 and db820c
  ARM: pxa3xx: enable external wakeup pins
  ARM: pxa: stargate2: use device properties for at24 eeprom
  arm64: defconfig: Enable HISILICON_LPC
  arm64: defconfig: enable drivers for Poplar support
  arm64: defconfig: Enable UFS on msm8996
  ARM: berlin: switch to SPDX license identifier
  arm: berlin: remove non-necessary flush_cache_all()
  ARM: berlin: extend BG2CD Kconfig entry
  OMAP: CLK: CLKSRC: Add suspend resume hooks
  ARM: AM43XX: Add functions to save/restore am43xx control registers
  ASoC: ams_delta: use GPIO lookup table
  ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: add GPIO lookup tables
  bus: ti-sysc: Fix optional clocks array access
  ARM: OMAP2+: Make sure LOGICRETSTATE bits are not cleared
  ARM: OMAP2+: prm44xx: Inroduce cpu_pm notifiers for context save/restore
  ARM: OMAP2+: prm44xx: Introduce context save/restore for am43 PRCM IO
  ARM: OMAP2+: powerdomain: Introduce cpu_pm notifiers for context save/restore
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T18:10:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T18:10:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=410feb75de245664d66bc05ab2e2412751d10acf'/>
<id>410feb75de245664d66bc05ab2e2412751d10acf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Apart from the core arm64 and perf changes, the Spectre v4 mitigation
  touches the arm KVM code and the ACPI PPTT support touches drivers/
  (acpi and cacheinfo). I should have the maintainers' acks in place.

  Summary:

   - Spectre v4 mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) support
     for arm64 using SMC firmware call to set a hardware chicken bit

   - ACPI PPTT (Processor Properties Topology Table) parsing support and
     enable the feature for arm64

   - Report signal frame size to user via auxv (AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). The
     primary motivation is Scalable Vector Extensions which requires
     more space on the signal frame than the currently defined
     MINSIGSTKSZ

   - ARM perf patches: allow building arm-cci as module, demote
     dev_warn() to dev_dbg() in arm-ccn event_init(), miscellaneous
     cleanups

   - cmpwait() WFE optimisation to avoid some spurious wakeups

   - L1_CACHE_BYTES reverted back to 64 (for performance reasons that
     have to do with some network allocations) while keeping
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128. cache_line_size() returns the actual
     hardware Cache Writeback Granule

   - Turn LSE atomics on by default in Kconfig

   - Kernel fault reporting tidying

   - Some #include and miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (53 commits)
  arm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer
  arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection
  ACPI / PPTT: fix build when CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT is not enabled
  arm64: cpu_errata: include required headers
  arm64: KVM: Move VCPU_WORKAROUND_2_FLAG macros to the top of the file
  arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
  arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID
  arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests
  arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors
  arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume
  arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor
  arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option
  arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing
  arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
  arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Apart from the core arm64 and perf changes, the Spectre v4 mitigation
  touches the arm KVM code and the ACPI PPTT support touches drivers/
  (acpi and cacheinfo). I should have the maintainers' acks in place.

  Summary:

   - Spectre v4 mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) support
     for arm64 using SMC firmware call to set a hardware chicken bit

   - ACPI PPTT (Processor Properties Topology Table) parsing support and
     enable the feature for arm64

   - Report signal frame size to user via auxv (AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). The
     primary motivation is Scalable Vector Extensions which requires
     more space on the signal frame than the currently defined
     MINSIGSTKSZ

   - ARM perf patches: allow building arm-cci as module, demote
     dev_warn() to dev_dbg() in arm-ccn event_init(), miscellaneous
     cleanups

   - cmpwait() WFE optimisation to avoid some spurious wakeups

   - L1_CACHE_BYTES reverted back to 64 (for performance reasons that
     have to do with some network allocations) while keeping
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128. cache_line_size() returns the actual
     hardware Cache Writeback Granule

   - Turn LSE atomics on by default in Kconfig

   - Kernel fault reporting tidying

   - Some #include and miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (53 commits)
  arm64: Fix syscall restarting around signal suppressed by tracer
  arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection
  ACPI / PPTT: fix build when CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT is not enabled
  arm64: cpu_errata: include required headers
  arm64: KVM: Move VCPU_WORKAROUND_2_FLAG macros to the top of the file
  arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
  arm64/sve: Thin out initialisation sanity-checks for sve_max_vl
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID
  arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests
  arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests
  arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors
  arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume
  arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation
  arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor
  arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option
  arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing
  arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
  arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL</title>
<updated>2018-06-08T00:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T00:06:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3010a5ea665a089361e435093bd737399123fcc4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Currently the PTE special supports is turned on in per architecture
header files.  Most of the time, it is defined in
arch/*/include/asm/pgtable.h depending or not on some other per
architecture static definition.

This patch introduce a new configuration variable to manage this
directly in the Kconfig files.  It would later replace
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL.

Here notes for some architecture where the definition of
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is not obvious:

arm
 __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL which is currently defined in
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h which is included by
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h when CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if ARM_LPAE.

powerpc
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined in 2 files:
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
The first one is included if (PPC_BOOK3S &amp; PPC64) while the second is
included in all the other cases.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL all the time.

sparc:
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined if defined(__sparc__) &amp;&amp;
defined(__arch64__) which are defined through the compiler in
sparc/Makefile if !SPARC32 which I assume to be if SPARC64.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if SPARC64

There is no functional change introduced by this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523433816-14460-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;albert@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe LEROY &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently the PTE special supports is turned on in per architecture
header files.  Most of the time, it is defined in
arch/*/include/asm/pgtable.h depending or not on some other per
architecture static definition.

This patch introduce a new configuration variable to manage this
directly in the Kconfig files.  It would later replace
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL.

Here notes for some architecture where the definition of
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is not obvious:

arm
 __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL which is currently defined in
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h which is included by
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h when CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if ARM_LPAE.

powerpc
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined in 2 files:
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
The first one is included if (PPC_BOOK3S &amp; PPC64) while the second is
included in all the other cases.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL all the time.

sparc:
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined if defined(__sparc__) &amp;&amp;
defined(__arch64__) which are defined through the compiler in
sparc/Makefile if !SPARC32 which I assume to be if SPARC64.
So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if SPARC64

There is no functional change introduced by this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523433816-14460-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;albert@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe LEROY &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T20:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-06T20:49:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Initial round of Spectre variant 1 and variant 2 fixes for 32-bit ARM

 - Clang support improvements

 - nommu updates for v8 MPU

 - enable ARM_MODULE_PLTS by default to avoid problems loading modules
   with larger kernels

 - vmlinux.lds and dma-mapping cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: spectre-v1: fix syscall entry
  ARM: spectre-v1: add array_index_mask_nospec() implementation
  ARM: spectre-v1: add speculation barrier (csdb) macros
  ARM: KVM: report support for SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1
  ARM: KVM: Add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 fast handling
  ARM: spectre-v2: KVM: invalidate icache on guest exit for Brahma B15
  ARM: KVM: invalidate icache on guest exit for Cortex-A15
  ARM: KVM: invalidate BTB on guest exit for Cortex-A12/A17
  ARM: spectre-v2: warn about incorrect context switching functions
  ARM: spectre-v2: add firmware based hardening
  ARM: spectre-v2: harden user aborts in kernel space
  ARM: spectre-v2: add Cortex A8 and A15 validation of the IBE bit
  ARM: spectre-v2: harden branch predictor on context switches
  ARM: spectre: add Kconfig symbol for CPUs vulnerable to Spectre
  ARM: bugs: add support for per-processor bug checking
  ARM: bugs: hook processor bug checking into SMP and suspend paths
  ARM: bugs: prepare processor bug infrastructure
  ARM: add more CPU part numbers for Cortex and Brahma B15 CPUs
  ARM: 8774/1: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
  ARM: 8773/1: amba: Export amba_bustype
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Initial round of Spectre variant 1 and variant 2 fixes for 32-bit ARM

 - Clang support improvements

 - nommu updates for v8 MPU

 - enable ARM_MODULE_PLTS by default to avoid problems loading modules
   with larger kernels

 - vmlinux.lds and dma-mapping cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: spectre-v1: fix syscall entry
  ARM: spectre-v1: add array_index_mask_nospec() implementation
  ARM: spectre-v1: add speculation barrier (csdb) macros
  ARM: KVM: report support for SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1
  ARM: KVM: Add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 fast handling
  ARM: spectre-v2: KVM: invalidate icache on guest exit for Brahma B15
  ARM: KVM: invalidate icache on guest exit for Cortex-A15
  ARM: KVM: invalidate BTB on guest exit for Cortex-A12/A17
  ARM: spectre-v2: warn about incorrect context switching functions
  ARM: spectre-v2: add firmware based hardening
  ARM: spectre-v2: harden user aborts in kernel space
  ARM: spectre-v2: add Cortex A8 and A15 validation of the IBE bit
  ARM: spectre-v2: harden branch predictor on context switches
  ARM: spectre: add Kconfig symbol for CPUs vulnerable to Spectre
  ARM: bugs: add support for per-processor bug checking
  ARM: bugs: hook processor bug checking into SMP and suspend paths
  ARM: bugs: prepare processor bug infrastructure
  ARM: add more CPU part numbers for Cortex and Brahma B15 CPUs
  ARM: 8774/1: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
  ARM: 8773/1: amba: Export amba_bustype
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'misc' and 'spectre' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T09:03:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T09:03:27+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T03:27:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T03:27:54+00:00</published>
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Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces:

     + Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core
       code

     + Introduce config switches which allow to control the various
       compat mechanisms

     + Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the
       32bit compat syscall implementation.

 - Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an
   endless reselection loop

 - Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value
   and just adds another level of indirection

 - The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the
   place

 - More SPDX conversions

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path
  clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages
  clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency
  clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations
  timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef
  timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment
  tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device
  clocksource: Remove kthread
  time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types
  time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types
  time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces
  time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec
  posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures
  compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always
  ...
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Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces:

     + Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core
       code

     + Introduce config switches which allow to control the various
       compat mechanisms

     + Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the
       32bit compat syscall implementation.

 - Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an
   endless reselection loop

 - Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value
   and just adds another level of indirection

 - The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the
   place

 - More SPDX conversions

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier
  clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path
  clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages
  clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency
  clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations
  timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef
  timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment
  tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device
  clocksource: Remove kthread
  time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types
  time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types
  time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces
  time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec
  posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures
  compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-06-04T17:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T17:58:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e5a594643a3444d39c1467040e638bf08a4e0db8'/>
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - replace the force_dma flag with a dma_configure bus method. (Nipun
   Gupta, although one patch is іncorrectly attributed to me due to a
   git rebase bug)

 - use GFP_DMA32 more agressively in dma-direct. (Takashi Iwai)

 - remove PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS and rely on the dma-mapping API to do the
   right thing for bounce buffering.

 - move dma-debug initialization to common code, and apply a few
   cleanups to the dma-debug code.

 - cleanup the Kconfig mess around swiotlb selection

 - swiotlb comment fixup (Yisheng Xie)

 - a trivial swiotlb fix. (Dan Carpenter)

 - support swiotlb on RISC-V. (based on a patch from Palmer Dabbelt)

 - add a new generic dma-noncoherent dma_map_ops implementation and use
   it for arc, c6x and nds32.

 - improve scatterlist validity checking in dma-debug. (Robin Murphy)

 - add a struct device quirk to limit the dma-mask to 32-bit due to
   bridge/system issues, and switch x86 to use it instead of a local
   hack for VIA bridges.

 - handle devices without a dma_mask more gracefully in the dma-direct
   code.

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (48 commits)
  dma-direct: don't crash on device without dma_mask
  nds32: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  nds32: implement the unmap_sg DMA operation
  nds32: consolidate DMA cache maintainance routines
  x86/pci-dma: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the struct device flag
  x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option
  x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option
  Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c
  core, dma-direct: add a flag 32-bit dma limits
  dma-mapping: remove unused gfp_t parameter to arch_dma_alloc_attrs
  dma-debug: check scatterlist segments
  c6x: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  arc: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  arc: fix arc_dma_{map,unmap}_page
  arc: fix arc_dma_sync_sg_for_{cpu,device}
  arc: simplify arc_dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device}
  dma-mapping: provide a generic dma-noncoherent implementation
  dma-mapping: simplify Kconfig dependencies
  riscv: add swiotlb support
  riscv: only enable ZONE_DMA32 for 64-bit
  ...
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - replace the force_dma flag with a dma_configure bus method. (Nipun
   Gupta, although one patch is іncorrectly attributed to me due to a
   git rebase bug)

 - use GFP_DMA32 more agressively in dma-direct. (Takashi Iwai)

 - remove PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS and rely on the dma-mapping API to do the
   right thing for bounce buffering.

 - move dma-debug initialization to common code, and apply a few
   cleanups to the dma-debug code.

 - cleanup the Kconfig mess around swiotlb selection

 - swiotlb comment fixup (Yisheng Xie)

 - a trivial swiotlb fix. (Dan Carpenter)

 - support swiotlb on RISC-V. (based on a patch from Palmer Dabbelt)

 - add a new generic dma-noncoherent dma_map_ops implementation and use
   it for arc, c6x and nds32.

 - improve scatterlist validity checking in dma-debug. (Robin Murphy)

 - add a struct device quirk to limit the dma-mask to 32-bit due to
   bridge/system issues, and switch x86 to use it instead of a local
   hack for VIA bridges.

 - handle devices without a dma_mask more gracefully in the dma-direct
   code.

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (48 commits)
  dma-direct: don't crash on device without dma_mask
  nds32: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  nds32: implement the unmap_sg DMA operation
  nds32: consolidate DMA cache maintainance routines
  x86/pci-dma: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the struct device flag
  x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option
  x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option
  Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c
  core, dma-direct: add a flag 32-bit dma limits
  dma-mapping: remove unused gfp_t parameter to arch_dma_alloc_attrs
  dma-debug: check scatterlist segments
  c6x: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  arc: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
  arc: fix arc_dma_{map,unmap}_page
  arc: fix arc_dma_sync_sg_for_{cpu,device}
  arc: simplify arc_dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device}
  dma-mapping: provide a generic dma-noncoherent implementation
  dma-mapping: simplify Kconfig dependencies
  riscv: add swiotlb support
  riscv: only enable ZONE_DMA32 for 64-bit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs</title>
<updated>2018-06-01T17:18:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Orr</name>
<email>marcorr@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T11:37:37+00:00</published>
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The kvm struct has been bloating. For example, it's tens of kilo-bytes
for x86, which turns out to be a large amount of memory to allocate
contiguously via kzalloc. Thus, this patch does the following:
1. Uses architecture-specific routines to allocate the kvm struct via
   vzalloc for x86.
2. Switches arm to __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_ALLOC so that it can use vzalloc
   when has_vhe() is true.

Other architectures continue to default to kalloc, as they have a
dependency on kalloc or have a small-enough struct kvm.

Signed-off-by: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The kvm struct has been bloating. For example, it's tens of kilo-bytes
for x86, which turns out to be a large amount of memory to allocate
contiguously via kzalloc. Thus, this patch does the following:
1. Uses architecture-specific routines to allocate the kvm struct via
   vzalloc for x86.
2. Switches arm to __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_ALLOC so that it can use vzalloc
   when has_vhe() is true.

Other architectures continue to default to kalloc, as they have a
dependency on kalloc or have a small-enough struct kvm.

Signed-off-by: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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