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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-07 20:19:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-07 20:19:31 -0700
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights: - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin) - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al. - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur) - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur) - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver O'Halloran) - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao) - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards (Darren Stevens) Fixes: - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael Ellerman) - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman) - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard) - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui) - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy) - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K (Aneesh Kumar K.V) - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew Donnellan) - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin) Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard): - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy() - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little endian - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds Cleanups & features: - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens) - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address (Paul Mackerras) - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V) - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU) (Simon Guo) - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas Piggin) - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin) - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey) - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan) - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan) - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard) - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh) - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat) - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan) - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas Piggin) - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin) - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael Ellerman) - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard) - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey) - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions (Nicholas Piggin) - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin) - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling) - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman) Minor cleanups: - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng, Simon Guo" * tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits) powerpc/bpf: Add support for bpf constant blinding powerpc/bpf: Implement support for tail calls powerpc/bpf: Introduce accessors for using the tmp local stack space powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec} powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts selftests/powerpc: Check that signals always get delivered selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C selftests/powerpc: Allow tests to extend their kill timeout selftests/powerpc: Introduce GPR asm helper header file selftests/powerpc: Move VMX stack frame macros to header file selftests/powerpc: Rework FPU stack placement macros and move to header file selftests/powerpc: Check for VSX preservation across userspace preemption ...
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