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- "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be upstreamed via the arm64 tree - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems where CPUs may not have exactly the same features. The features reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts) - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where feasible) - KASan support for arm64 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by KASan) - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template) - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive entries may be able to use a single TLB entry) - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64 - defconfig updates -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJWOkmIAAoJEGvWsS0AyF7x4GgQAINU3NePjFFvWZNCkqobeH9+ jFKwtXamIudhTSdnXNXyYWmtRL9Krg3qI4zDQf68dvDFAZAze2kVuOi1yPpCbpFZ /j/afNyQc7+PoyqRAzmT+EMPZlcuOA84Prrl1r3QWZ58QaFeVk/6ZxrHunTHxN0x mR9PIXfWx73MTo+UnG8FChkmEY6LmV4XpemgTaMR9FqFhdT51OZSxDDAYXOTm4JW a5HdN9OWjjJ2rhLlFEaC7tszG9B5doHdy2tr5ge/YERVJzIPDogHkMe8ZhfAJc+x SQU5tKN6Pg4MOi+dLhxlk0/mKCvHLiEQ5KVREJnt8GxupAR54Bat+DQ+rP9cSnpq dRQTcARIOyy9LGgy+ROAsSo+NiyM5WuJ0/WJUYKmgWTJOfczRYoZv6TMKlwNOUYb tGLCZHhKPM3yBHJlWbQykl3xmSuudxCMmjlZzg7B+MVfTP6uo0CRSPmYl+v67q+J bBw/Z2RYXWYGnvlc6OfbMeImI6prXeE36+5ytyJFga0m+IqcTzRGzjcLxKEvdbiU pr8n9i+hV9iSsT/UwukXZ8ay6zH7PrTLzILWQlieutfXlvha7MYeGxnkbLmdYcfe GCj374io5cdImHcVKmfhnOMlFOLuOHphl9cmsd/O2LmCIqBj9BIeNH2Om8mHVK2F YHczMdpESlJApE7kUc1e =3six -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be upstreamed via the arm64 tree - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems where CPUs may not have exactly the same features. The features reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts) - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where feasible) - KASan support for arm64 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by KASan) - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template) - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive entries may be able to use a single TLB entry) - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64 - defconfig updates * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (91 commits) arm64/efi: fix libstub build under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS ARM64: Enable multi-core scheduler support by default arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA arm64: Fix build with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n arm64: Fix compat register mappings arm64: Increase the max granular size arm64: remove bogus TASK_SIZE_64 check arm64: make Timer Interrupt Frequency selectable arm64/mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED arm64: cachetype: fix definitions of ICACHEF_* flags arm64: cpufeature: declare enable_cpu_capabilities as static genirq: Make the cpuhotplug migration code less noisy arm64: Constify hwcap name string arrays arm64/kvm: Make use of the system wide safe values arm64/debug: Make use of the system wide safe value arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code arm64/HWCAP: Use system wide safe values arm64/capabilities: Make use of system wide safe value arm64: Delay cpu feature capability checks ...
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UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a specification
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governing the behaviours of compatible firmware interfaces. It is
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maintained by the UEFI Forum - http://www.uefi.org/.
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UEFI is an evolution of its predecessor 'EFI', so the terms EFI and
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UEFI are used somewhat interchangeably in this document and associated
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source code. As a rule, anything new uses 'UEFI', whereas 'EFI' refers
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to legacy code or specifications.
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UEFI support in Linux
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=====================
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Booting on a platform with firmware compliant with the UEFI specification
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makes it possible for the kernel to support additional features:
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- UEFI Runtime Services
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- Retrieving various configuration information through the standardised
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interface of UEFI configuration tables. (ACPI, SMBIOS, ...)
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For actually enabling [U]EFI support, enable:
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- CONFIG_EFI=y
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- CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m
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The implementation depends on receiving information about the UEFI environment
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in a Flattened Device Tree (FDT) - so is only available with CONFIG_OF.
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UEFI stub
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=========
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The "stub" is a feature that extends the Image/zImage into a valid UEFI
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PE/COFF executable, including a loader application that makes it possible to
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load the kernel directly from the UEFI shell, boot menu, or one of the
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lightweight bootloaders like Gummiboot or rEFInd.
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The kernel image built with stub support remains a valid kernel image for
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booting in non-UEFI environments.
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UEFI kernel support on ARM
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==========================
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UEFI kernel support on the ARM architectures (arm and arm64) is only available
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when boot is performed through the stub.
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When booting in UEFI mode, the stub deletes any memory nodes from a provided DT.
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Instead, the kernel reads the UEFI memory map.
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The stub populates the FDT /chosen node with (and the kernel scans for) the
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following parameters:
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Name | Size | Description
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linux,uefi-system-table | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI System Table.
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linux,uefi-mmap-start | 64-bit | Physical address of the UEFI memory map,
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linux,uefi-mmap-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of the UEFI memory map
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linux,uefi-mmap-desc-size | 32-bit | Size in bytes of each entry in the UEFI
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linux,uefi-mmap-desc-ver | 32-bit | Version of the mmap descriptor format.
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