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![]() 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) 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) - 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 - 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJX9x5ZAAoJEFHr6jzI4aWAWQ0P+gOhdtayMsRY0k0dzPmYaFr0 Ha5v968RJaNIyGGM9ARJg8h27PGMaSlBp/9zaYdk1G7xfv/DMR0uq8d8l5pjy/Zw Jm72WE4PEX/zAcQxry6Y2fDdumO09crTBA/W0hM1UZzqu0bcVUfD+E51ZFYWW7yh fyhT2YnlucxIcT34pxsLqwTIiZYG4xgN3+YGo0wohY1D1GHE3UZ7SXIglb49yM6v ZeXrL7SOdERR1w88rC+g99P/cWng5HDS0wPLUbxGT5KIpoOSXOs7EbZwFqQBUy5O 37PB07K5dDyUbrm++l5lUigldF3W1OZQBN5+n8PciulxxwFX84pllTlAxv1p60JR piEKZ8pl023IF7zMGatUG9qcNOcnbxdMsAhoEhlcFi9ulM/yLzbmRTKVfDYm+O/J UI+YtcbsgdyOXMdGXCqdpeBNuuypgLG/g7gC8bnk3taS0LUUZLcXtRNuE4tcPJJe v8FnszaLkjAi83Lmzt3fgZo7DI1RIPwDSw6fY+nBrxCRfEPRVx3f7KhmUXvSeol5 Ln9xpk4AtyQt1RHhckxXwWSUgvXVg2ltmz7ElqK4sQ9mO/D2ZIs6R6fPY4VlJLc4 /2yIV4RLIsbHmdv9IbJ8PBp0VTugSNdicZ904QiAHSZQv/i1mgYuXw3tjR6kuy9f bKOzNJTwLV1WUsOlUpiq =Jnn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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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bootwrapper.txt | ||
cpu_families.txt | ||
cpu_features.txt | ||
cxl.txt | ||
cxlflash.txt | ||
dscr.txt | ||
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt | ||
firmware-assisted-dump.txt | ||
hvcs.txt | ||
mpc52xx.txt | ||
pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt | ||
pmu-ebb.txt | ||
ptrace.txt | ||
qe_firmware.txt | ||
syscall64-abi.txt | ||
transactional_memory.txt |