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    Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · 7ae77150
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
    
     - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
       accelerator on Power9.
    
     - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
       make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
       relying on an IPI for serialisation.
    
     - A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
       more robust.
    
     - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
       on Power10.
    
     - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
    
     - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
       driver.
    
     - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
    
     - Initial support for booting on Power10.
    
     - Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
    
    Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
    Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
    Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
    JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
    Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
    R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
    Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
    Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
    Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
    Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
    Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
    Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
    Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.
    
    * tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
      powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
      cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
      powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
      powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
      powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
      powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
      powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
      powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
      powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
      powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
      powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
      powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
      powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
      powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
      powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
      powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
      powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
      powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
      powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
      powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
      ...
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