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    Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm · b9085bcb
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
     "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.
    
      Common:
         Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
         instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
         architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
         scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
         also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
         auto-tune this in the future.
    
      ARM/ARM64:
         The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
         tracking
    
      s390:
         Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
         exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
         it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
    
      MIPS:
         Bugfixes.
    
      x86:
         Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
         Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
         virtualization i...
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