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Will Deacon 57b8b1b435 Merge branches 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/boot', 'for-next/bpf', 'for-next/cpuinfo', 'for-next/fpsimd', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/mm', 'for-next/pci', 'for-next/perf', 'for-next/ptrauth', 'for-next/sdei', 'for-next/selftests', 'for-next/stacktrace', 'for-next/svm', 'for-next/topology', 'for-next/tpyos' and 'for-next/vdso' into for-next/core
Remove unused functions and parameters from ACPI IORT code.
(Zenghui Yu via Lorenzo Pieralisi)
* for-next/acpi:
  ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused inline functions
  ACPI/IORT: Drop the unused @ops of iort_add_device_replay()

Remove redundant code and fix documentation of caching behaviour for the
HVC_SOFT_RESTART hypercall.
(Pingfan Liu)
* for-next/boot:
  Documentation/kvm/arm: improve description of HVC_SOFT_RESTART
  arm64/relocate_kernel: remove redundant code

Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT failure.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/bpf:
  arm64: Improve diagnostics when trapping BRK with FAULT_BRK_IMM

Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their corresponding
numerical constants.
(Anshuman Khandual)
* for-next/cpuinfo:
  arm64/cpuinfo: Define HWCAP name arrays per their actual bit definitions

Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in preparation
for potential future optimisation of handling across syscalls.
(Julien Grall)
* for-next/fpsimd:
  arm64/sve: Implement a helper to load SVE registers from FPSIMD state
  arm64/sve: Implement a helper to flush SVE registers
  arm64/fpsimdmacros: Allow the macro "for" to be used in more cases
  arm64/fpsimdmacros: Introduce a macro to update ZCR_EL1.LEN
  arm64/signal: Update the comment in preserve_sve_context
  arm64/fpsimd: Update documentation of do_sve_acc

Miscellaneous changes.
(Tian Tao and others)
* for-next/misc:
  arm64/mm: return cpu_all_mask when node is NUMA_NO_NODE
  arm64: mm: Fix missing-prototypes in pageattr.c
  arm64/fpsimd: Fix missing-prototypes in fpsimd.c
  arm64: hibernate: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
  arm64/mm: Refactor {pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_ERROR()
  arm64: Remove the unused include statements
  arm64: get rid of TEXT_OFFSET
  arm64: traps: Add str of description to panic() in die()

Memory management updates and cleanups.
(Anshuman Khandual and others)
* for-next/mm:
  arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
  arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
  arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PMD_SHIFT
  arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PTE_SHIFT
  arm64/mm: Remove CONT_RANGE_OFFSET
  arm64/mm: Enable THP migration
  arm64/mm: Change THP helpers to comply with generic MM semantics
  arm64/mm/ptdump: Add address markers for BPF regions

Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
non-cacheable mappings.
(Clint Sbisa)
* for-next/pci:
  arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs

Perf/PMU driver updates.
(Julien Thierry and others)
* for-next/perf:
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
  arm_pmu: arm64: Use NMIs for PMU
  arm_pmu: Introduce pmu_irq_ops
  KVM: arm64: pmu: Make overflow handler NMI safe
  arm64: perf: Defer irq_work to IPI_IRQ_WORK
  arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking
  arm64: perf: Avoid PMXEV* indirection
  arm64: perf: Add missing ISB in armv8pmu_enable_counter()
  perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driver
  perf: Add Arm CMN-600 DT binding
  arm64: perf: Add support caps under sysfs
  drivers/perf: thunderx2_pmu: Fix memory resource error handling
  drivers/perf: xgene_pmu: Fix uninitialized resource struct
  perf: arm_dsu: Support DSU ACPI devices
  arm64: perf: Remove unnecessary event_idx check
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add missing include of linux/module.h
  arm64: perf: Add general hardware LLC events for PMUv3

Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.
(By Amit Daniel Kachhap)
* for-next/ptrauth:
  arm64: kprobe: clarify the comment of steppable hint instructions
  arm64: kprobe: disable probe of fault prone ptrauth instruction
  arm64: cpufeature: Modify address authentication cpufeature to exact
  arm64: ptrauth: Introduce Armv8.3 pointer authentication enhancements
  arm64: traps: Allow force_signal_inject to pass esr error code
  arm64: kprobe: add checks for ARMv8.3-PAuth combined instructions

Tonnes of cleanup to the SDEI driver.
(Gavin Shan)
* for-next/sdei:
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_unregister()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_register()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Introduce sdei_do_local_call()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Cleanup on cross call function
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_unregister()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_register()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove redundant error message in sdei_probe()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove duplicate check in sdei_get_conduit()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Unregister driver on error in sdei_init()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Avoid nested statements in sdei_init()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Retrieve event number from event instance
  firmware: arm_sdei: Common block for failing path in sdei_event_create()
  firmware: arm_sdei: Remove sdei_is_err()

Selftests for Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context-switching.
(Mark Brown and Boyan Karatotev)
* for-next/selftests:
  selftests: arm64: Add build and documentation for FP tests
  selftests: arm64: Add wrapper scripts for stress tests
  selftests: arm64: Add utility to set SVE vector lengths
  selftests: arm64: Add stress tests for FPSMID and SVE context switching
  selftests: arm64: Add test for the SVE ptrace interface
  selftests: arm64: Test case for enumeration of SVE vector lengths
  kselftests/arm64: add PAuth tests for single threaded consistency and differently initialized keys
  kselftests/arm64: add PAuth test for whether exec() changes keys
  kselftests/arm64: add nop checks for PAuth tests
  kselftests/arm64: add a basic Pointer Authentication test

Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.
(Mark Brown)
* for-next/stacktrace:
  arm64: Move console stack display code to stacktrace.c
  arm64: stacktrace: Convert to ARCH_STACKWALK
  arm64: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  stacktrace: Remove reliable argument from arch_stack_walk() callback

Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing page-tables with
the SMMU.
(Jean-Philippe Brucker)
* for-next/svm:
  arm64: cpufeature: Export symbol read_sanitised_ftr_reg()
  arm64: mm: Pin down ASIDs for sharing mm with devices

Rely on firmware tables for establishing CPU topology.
(Valentin Schneider)
* for-next/topology:
  arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information

Spelling fixes.
(Xiaoming Ni and Yanfei Xu)
* for-next/tpyos:
  arm64/numa: Fix a typo in comment of arm64_numa_init
  arm64: fix some spelling mistakes in the comments by codespell

vDSO cleanups.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/vdso:
  arm64: vdso: Fix unusual formatting in *setup_additional_pages()
  arm64: vdso32: Remove a bunch of #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO guards
2020-10-02 12:01:41 +01:00
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ABI powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move cpumask file to top folder of hv-24x7 driver 2020-08-21 23:35:27 +10:00
accounting
admin-guide perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driver 2020-09-28 18:50:20 +01:00
arm ARM development for 5.9-rc1: 2020-08-06 10:17:00 -07:00
arm64 IOMMU Updates for Linux v5.9 2020-08-11 14:13:24 -07:00
block for-5.9/drivers-20200803 2020-08-05 10:51:40 -07:00
bpf doc: Add link to bpf helpers man page 2020-08-13 22:48:06 +02:00
cdrom A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
core-api A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
cpu-freq
crypto It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
dev-tools A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
devicetree perf: Add Arm CMN-600 DT binding 2020-09-28 18:50:17 +01:00
doc-guide
driver-api - Core Frameworks 2020-08-15 08:09:38 -07:00
fault-injection nvme: rename and document nvme_end_request 2020-08-21 17:14:28 -06:00
fb drm next for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-05 19:50:06 -07:00
features A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
filesystems Improvements to ext4's block allocator performance for very large file 2020-08-21 11:03:38 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide ACPI: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-27 14:47:08 +02:00
fpga Char/Misc driver patches for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-05 11:43:47 -07:00
gpu - Core Frameworks 2020-08-11 13:48:02 -07:00
hid docs: hid: Convert link to https 2020-07-13 11:26:37 -06:00
hwmon hwmon updates for v5.9 2020-08-05 13:13:57 -07:00
i2c Merge branch 'i2c/for-5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2020-08-13 18:41:00 -07:00
ia64 docs: ia64: correct typo 2020-07-31 11:09:09 -06:00
ide
iio
infiniband
input Input: uinput - fix typo in function name documentation 2020-07-28 18:24:11 -07:00
isdn
kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.9 2020-08-09 14:10:26 -07:00
kernel-hacking
leds LEDs changes for 5.9-rc1. 2020-08-05 19:24:27 -07:00
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
m68k
maintainer
mhi
mips It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
misc-devices
netlabel
networking docs: networking: bonding.rst resources section cleanup 2020-08-14 16:44:20 -07:00
nios2
nvdimm
openrisc docs: openrisc: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-13 11:34:09 -06:00
parisc
PCI pci-v5.9-changes 2020-08-07 18:48:15 -07:00
pcmcia
power Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-domains', 'powercap' and 'pm-tools' 2020-08-03 13:12:44 +02:00
powerpc Documentation/powerpc: fix malformed table in syscall64-abi 2020-08-27 17:40:55 +10:00
process A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
RCU These are the latest RCU bits for v5.9: 2020-08-03 14:31:33 -07:00
riscv
s390 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
scheduler sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rst 2020-08-01 09:19:43 +02:00
scsi
security
sh
sound ASoC: Updates for v5.9 2020-08-03 14:41:43 +02:00
sparc
sphinx
sphinx-static
spi
staging remoteproc updates for v5.9 2020-08-11 11:17:45 -07:00
target
timers docs: timers: drop documentation about LB_BIAS 2020-07-23 14:32:44 -06:00
trace A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
translations A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window. 2020-08-13 13:57:45 -07:00
usb USB: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-21 13:41:57 +02:00
userspace-api remoteproc updates for v5.9 2020-08-11 11:17:45 -07:00
virt Documentation/kvm/arm: improve description of HVC_SOFT_RESTART 2020-09-11 19:29:10 +01:00
vm mm/vmstat: add events for THP migration without split 2020-08-12 10:57:57 -07:00
w1
watchdog watchdog: add support for adjusting last known HW keepalive time 2020-08-05 18:43:02 +02:00
x86 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
xtensa
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atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
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