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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>arch: remove blackfin port</title>
<updated>2018-03-16T09:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T21:23:24+00:00</published>
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The Analog Devices Blackfin port was added in 2007 and was rather
active for a while, but all work on it has come to a standstill
over time, as Analog have changed their product line-up.

Aaron Wu confirmed that the architecture port is no longer relevant,
and multiple people suggested removing blackfin independently because
of some of its oddities like a non-working SMP port, and the amount of
duplication between the chip variants, which cause extra work when
doing cross-architecture changes.

Link: https://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/
Acked-by: Aaron Wu &lt;Aaron.Wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bryan Wu &lt;cooloney@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The Analog Devices Blackfin port was added in 2007 and was rather
active for a while, but all work on it has come to a standstill
over time, as Analog have changed their product line-up.

Aaron Wu confirmed that the architecture port is no longer relevant,
and multiple people suggested removing blackfin independently because
of some of its oddities like a non-working SMP port, and the amount of
duplication between the chip variants, which cause extra work when
doing cross-architecture changes.

Link: https://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/
Acked-by: Aaron Wu &lt;Aaron.Wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bryan Wu &lt;cooloney@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Remove metag generic timer driver</title>
<updated>2018-02-23T14:30:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>jhogan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T15:42:32+00:00</published>
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Now that arch/metag/ has been removed, remove the metag generic
per-thread timer driver. It is of no value without the architecture
code.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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Now that arch/metag/ has been removed, remove the metag generic
per-thread timer driver. It is of no value without the architecture
code.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drop a bunch of metag references</title>
<updated>2018-02-23T14:29:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>jhogan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-24T15:52:32+00:00</published>
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Now that arch/metag/ has been removed, drop a bunch of metag references
in various codes across the whole tree:
 - VM_GROWSUP and __VM_ARCH_SPECIFIC_1.
 - MT_METAG_* ELF note types.
 - METAG Kconfig dependencies (FRAME_POINTER) and ranges
   (MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB).
 - metag cases in tools (checkstack.pl, recordmcount.c, perf).

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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Now that arch/metag/ has been removed, drop a bunch of metag references
in various codes across the whole tree:
 - VM_GROWSUP and __VM_ARCH_SPECIFIC_1.
 - MT_METAG_* ELF note types.
 - METAG Kconfig dependencies (FRAME_POINTER) and ranges
   (MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB).
 - metag cases in tools (checkstack.pl, recordmcount.c, perf).

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T17:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T17:50:51+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - StrongARM SA1111 updates to modernise and remove cruft

 - Add StrongARM gpio drivers for board GPIOs

 - Verify size of zImage is what we expect to avoid issues with
   appended DTB

 - nommu updates from Vladimir Murzin

 - page table read-write-execute checking from Jinbum Park

 - Broadcom Brahma-B15 cache updates from Florian Fainelli

 - Avoid failure with kprobes test caused by inappropriately
   placed kprobes

 - Remove __memzero optimisation (which was incorrectly being
   used directly by some drivers)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()
  ARM: 8744/1: don't discard memblock for kexec
  ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
  ARM: 8742/1: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
  ARM: 8741/1: B15: fix unused label warnings
  ARM: 8740/1: NOMMU: Make sure we do not hold stale data in mem[] array
  ARM: 8739/1: NOMMU: Setup VBAR/Hivecs for secondaries cores
  ARM: 8738/1: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL for NOMMU
  ARM: 8737/1: mm: dump: add checking for writable and executable
  ARM: 8736/1: mm: dump: make the page table dumping seq_file
  ARM: 8735/1: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
  ARM: sa1100/neponset: add GPIO drivers for control and modem registers
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: add BCR/BSR GPIO driver
  ARM: 8734/1: mm: idmap: Mark variables as ro_after_init
  ARM: 8733/1: hw_breakpoint: Mark variables as __ro_after_init
  ARM: 8732/1: NOMMU: Allow userspace to access background MPU region
  ARM: 8727/1: MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code
  ARM: 8728/1: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC
  ARM: 8730/1: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks
  ARM: 8726/1: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - StrongARM SA1111 updates to modernise and remove cruft

 - Add StrongARM gpio drivers for board GPIOs

 - Verify size of zImage is what we expect to avoid issues with
   appended DTB

 - nommu updates from Vladimir Murzin

 - page table read-write-execute checking from Jinbum Park

 - Broadcom Brahma-B15 cache updates from Florian Fainelli

 - Avoid failure with kprobes test caused by inappropriately
   placed kprobes

 - Remove __memzero optimisation (which was incorrectly being
   used directly by some drivers)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()
  ARM: 8744/1: don't discard memblock for kexec
  ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
  ARM: 8742/1: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
  ARM: 8741/1: B15: fix unused label warnings
  ARM: 8740/1: NOMMU: Make sure we do not hold stale data in mem[] array
  ARM: 8739/1: NOMMU: Setup VBAR/Hivecs for secondaries cores
  ARM: 8738/1: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL for NOMMU
  ARM: 8737/1: mm: dump: add checking for writable and executable
  ARM: 8736/1: mm: dump: make the page table dumping seq_file
  ARM: 8735/1: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
  ARM: sa1100/neponset: add GPIO drivers for control and modem registers
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: add BCR/BSR GPIO driver
  ARM: 8734/1: mm: idmap: Mark variables as ro_after_init
  ARM: 8733/1: hw_breakpoint: Mark variables as __ro_after_init
  ARM: 8732/1: NOMMU: Allow userspace to access background MPU region
  ARM: 8727/1: MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code
  ARM: 8728/1: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC
  ARM: 8730/1: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks
  ARM: 8726/1: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T21:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T21:57:43+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "The main theme of this pull request is security covering variants 2
  and 3 for arm64. I expect to send additional patches next week
  covering an improved firmware interface (requires firmware changes)
  for variant 2 and way for KPTI to be disabled on unaffected CPUs
  (Cavium's ThunderX doesn't work properly with KPTI enabled because of
  a hardware erratum).

  Summary:

   - Security mitigations:
      - variant 2: invalidate the branch predictor with a call to
        secure firmware
      - variant 3: implement KPTI for arm64

   - 52-bit physical address support for arm64 (ARMv8.2)

   - arm64 support for RAS (firmware first only) and SDEI (software
     delegated exception interface; allows firmware to inject a RAS
     error into the OS)

   - perf support for the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit PMU

   - CPUID and HWCAP bits updated for new floating point multiplication
     instructions in ARMv8.4

   - remove some virtual memory layout printks during boot

   - fix initial page table creation to cope with larger than 32M kernel
     images when 16K pages are enabled"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (104 commits)
  arm64: Fix TTBR + PAN + 52-bit PA logic in cpu_do_switch_mm
  arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
  arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
  arm64: Run enable method for errata work arounds on late CPUs
  arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context
  arm64: mm: ignore memory above supported physical address size
  arm64: kpti: Fix the interaction between ASID switching and software PAN
  KVM: arm64: Emulate RAS error registers and set HCR_EL2's TERR &amp; TEA
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL2 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL1 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Save ESR_EL2 on guest SError
  KVM: arm64: Save/Restore guest DISR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: Set an impdef ESR for Virtual-SError using VSESR_EL2.
  KVM: arm/arm64: mask/unmask daif around VHE guests
  arm64: kernel: Prepare for a DISR user
  arm64: Unconditionally enable IESB on exception entry/return for firmware-first
  arm64: kernel: Survive corrected RAS errors notified by SError
  arm64: cpufeature: Detect CPU RAS Extentions
  arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits
  arm64: cpufeature: __this_cpu_has_cap() shouldn't stop early
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "The main theme of this pull request is security covering variants 2
  and 3 for arm64. I expect to send additional patches next week
  covering an improved firmware interface (requires firmware changes)
  for variant 2 and way for KPTI to be disabled on unaffected CPUs
  (Cavium's ThunderX doesn't work properly with KPTI enabled because of
  a hardware erratum).

  Summary:

   - Security mitigations:
      - variant 2: invalidate the branch predictor with a call to
        secure firmware
      - variant 3: implement KPTI for arm64

   - 52-bit physical address support for arm64 (ARMv8.2)

   - arm64 support for RAS (firmware first only) and SDEI (software
     delegated exception interface; allows firmware to inject a RAS
     error into the OS)

   - perf support for the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit PMU

   - CPUID and HWCAP bits updated for new floating point multiplication
     instructions in ARMv8.4

   - remove some virtual memory layout printks during boot

   - fix initial page table creation to cope with larger than 32M kernel
     images when 16K pages are enabled"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (104 commits)
  arm64: Fix TTBR + PAN + 52-bit PA logic in cpu_do_switch_mm
  arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
  arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
  arm64: Run enable method for errata work arounds on late CPUs
  arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context
  arm64: mm: ignore memory above supported physical address size
  arm64: kpti: Fix the interaction between ASID switching and software PAN
  KVM: arm64: Emulate RAS error registers and set HCR_EL2's TERR &amp; TEA
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL2 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL1 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Save ESR_EL2 on guest SError
  KVM: arm64: Save/Restore guest DISR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: Set an impdef ESR for Virtual-SError using VSESR_EL2.
  KVM: arm/arm64: mask/unmask daif around VHE guests
  arm64: kernel: Prepare for a DISR user
  arm64: Unconditionally enable IESB on exception entry/return for firmware-first
  arm64: kernel: Survive corrected RAS errors notified by SError
  arm64: cpufeature: Detect CPU RAS Extentions
  arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits
  arm64: cpufeature: __this_cpu_has_cap() shouldn't stop early
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'misc', 'sa1111' and 'sa1100-for-next' into for-next</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T15:38:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T15:38:10+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>firmware: arm_sdei: Add support for CPU and system power states</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T10:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T15:38:13+00:00</published>
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When a CPU enters an idle lower-power state or is powering off, we
need to mask SDE events so that no events can be delivered while we
are messing with the MMU as the registered entry points won't be valid.

If the system reboots, we want to unregister all events and mask the CPUs.
For kexec this allows us to hand a clean slate to the next kernel
instead of relying on it to call sdei_{private,system}_data_reset().

For hibernate we unregister all events and re-register them on restore,
in case we restored with the SDE code loaded at a different address.
(e.g. KASLR).

Add all the notifiers necessary to do this. We only support shared events
so all events are left registered and enabled over CPU hotplug.

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED case]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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When a CPU enters an idle lower-power state or is powering off, we
need to mask SDE events so that no events can be delivered while we
are messing with the MMU as the registered entry points won't be valid.

If the system reboots, we want to unregister all events and mask the CPUs.
For kexec this allows us to hand a clean slate to the next kernel
instead of relying on it to call sdei_{private,system}_data_reset().

For hibernate we unregister all events and re-register them on restore,
in case we restored with the SDE code loaded at a different address.
(e.g. KASLR).

Add all the notifiers necessary to do this. We only support shared events
so all events are left registered and enabled over CPU hotplug.

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED case]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Reinitialize per cpu bases on hotplug</title>
<updated>2017-12-29T22:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-27T20:37:25+00:00</published>
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The timer wheel bases are not (re)initialized on CPU hotplug. That leaves
them with a potentially stale clk and next_expiry valuem, which can cause
trouble then the CPU is plugged.

Add a prepare callback which forwards the clock, sets next_expiry to far in
the future and reset the control flags to a known state.

Set base-&gt;must_forward_clk so the first timer which is queued will try to
forward the clock to current jiffies.

Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272152200.2431@nanos

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The timer wheel bases are not (re)initialized on CPU hotplug. That leaves
them with a potentially stale clk and next_expiry valuem, which can cause
trouble then the CPU is plugged.

Add a prepare callback which forwards the clock, sets next_expiry to far in
the future and reset the control flags to a known state.

Set base-&gt;must_forward_clk so the first timer which is queued will try to
forward the clock to current jiffies.

Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272152200.2431@nanos

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8726/1: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness</title>
<updated>2017-12-17T22:15:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-01T00:10:11+00:00</published>
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The Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache needs to be disabled,
respectively re-enable during a CPU hotplug. In case we were not to do,
CPU hotplug would occasionally fail with random crashes when a given CPU
exits the coherency domain while the RAC is still enabled, as it would
get stale data from the RAC.

In order to avoid adding any specific B15 readahead-cache awareness to
arch/arm/mach-bcm/hotplug-brcmstb.c we use a CPU hotplug state machine
which allows us to catch CPU hotplug events and disable/flush enable the
RAC accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Alamy Liu &lt;alamyliu@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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The Broadcom Brahma-B15 readahead cache needs to be disabled,
respectively re-enable during a CPU hotplug. In case we were not to do,
CPU hotplug would occasionally fail with random crashes when a given CPU
exits the coherency domain while the RAC is still enabled, as it would
get stale data from the RAC.

In order to avoid adding any specific B15 readahead-cache awareness to
arch/arm/mach-bcm/hotplug-brcmstb.c we use a CPU hotplug state machine
which allows us to catch CPU hotplug events and disable/flush enable the
RAC accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Alamy Liu &lt;alamyliu@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T18:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T18:56:56+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
  which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing
  applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large
  new vector context (&lt;= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further
  work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI
  is solid now.

  Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but
  they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in
  future.

  Plenty of acronym soup here:

   - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

   - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS
     events)

   - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types

   - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps

   - use of WFE to implement long delay()s

   - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)

   - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs

   - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits)
  arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL
  arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function
  arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+
  arm64/sve: Add documentation
  arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
  arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests
  arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution
  arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE
  arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes
  arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management
  arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
  arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths
  arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations
  arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
  arm64/sve: Signal handling support
  arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
  arm64/sve: Core task context handling
  arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
  which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing
  applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large
  new vector context (&lt;= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further
  work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI
  is solid now.

  Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but
  they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in
  future.

  Plenty of acronym soup here:

   - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

   - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS
     events)

   - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types

   - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps

   - use of WFE to implement long delay()s

   - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)

   - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs

   - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits)
  arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL
  arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function
  arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+
  arm64/sve: Add documentation
  arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
  arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests
  arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution
  arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE
  arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes
  arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management
  arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
  arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths
  arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations
  arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
  arm64/sve: Signal handling support
  arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
  arm64/sve: Core task context handling
  arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup
  ...
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