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    Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-4.15-arch-v9-premerge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux
    
    Pull RISC-V architecture support from Palmer Dabbelt:
     "This contains the core RISC-V Linux port, which has been through nine
      rounds of review on various mailing lists. The port is not complete:
      there's some cleanup patches moving through the review process, a
      whole bunch of drivers that need some work, and a lot of feature
      additions that will be needed.
    
      The patches contained in this tag have been through nine rounds of
      review on the various mailing lists. I have some outstanding cleanup
      patches, but since there's been so much review on these patches I
      thought it would be best to submit them as-is and then submit explicit
      cleanup patches so everyone can review them. This first patch set is
      big enough that it's a bit of a pain to constantly rewrite, and it's
      caused a few headaches with various contributors.
    
      The port is definately a work in progress. While what's there builds
      and boots with 4.14, it's a bit hard to actually see anything happen
      because there are no device drivers yet. I maintain a staging branch
      that contains all the device drivers and cleanup that actually works,
      but those patches won't all be ready for a while. I'd like to get what
      we currently have into your tree so everyone can start working from a
      single base -- of particular importance is allowing the glibc
      upstreaming process to proceed so we can sort out any possibly
      lingering user-visible ABI problems we might have.
    
      Copied below is the ChangeLog that contains the history of this patch
      set:
    
       (v9) As per suggestions on our v8 patch set, I've split the core
            architecture code out from our drivers and would like to submit
            this patch set to be included into linux-next, with the goal
            being to be merged in during the next merge window. This patch
            set is based on 4.14-rc2, but if it's better to have it based on
            something else then I can change it around.
    
            This patch set contains just the core arch code for RISC-V, so
            while it builds an nominally boots, you can't print or take an
            interrupt so it's not that useful. If you're looking to actually
            boot a system it would probably be better to use the full patch
            set listed below.
    
            We've collected a handful of tags from reviewers, and the
            remainder of the patch set only got minimal feedback last time.
            Here's what changed:
    
             - We now use the device tree to initialize the timer driver so
               it's less tighly coupled with the arch port.
    
             - I cleaned up the defconfigs -- there's actually now just one,
               and it's empty. For now I think we're OK with what the kernel
               sets as defaults, but I anticipate we'll begin to expand this
               as people start to use the port more.
    
             - The VDSO symbols version is sane.
    
             - We WFI while spinning in the boot loop.
    
             - A handful of comments have been added.
    
            While there are still a handful of FIXMEs in this patch set,
            we've started to get enough interest from various users and
            contributors that maintaining an out of tree patch set is
            starting to become a big burden. Hopefully the patches are good
            enough to merge now, which will at least get everyone working in
            a more reasonable manner as we clean up the remaining issues.
    
       (v8) I know it may not be the ideal time to submit a patch set right
            now, as it's the middle of the merge window, but things have
            calmed down quite a bit in the last month so I thought it would
            be good to get everyone on the same page. There's been a handful
            of changes since the last patch set, but most of them are fairly
            minor:
    
             - We changed PAGE_OFFSET to allowing mapping more physical
               memory on 64-bit systems. This is user configurable, as it
               triggers a different code model that generates slightly less
               efficient code.
    
             - The device tree binding documentation is back, I'd managed to
               lose it at some point.
    
             - We now pass the atomic64 test suite
    
             - The SBI timer driver has been refactored.
    
       (v7) It's been a while since my last patch set, but the changes han
            been fairly minimal:
    
             - The PCI cleanup patches have been dropped, we'll do them as a
               separate patch set later.
    
             - We've the Kconfig entries from CONFIG_ISA_* to
               CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_*, to make grep easier.
    
             - There have been a handful of memory model related tweaks in
               I/O land, particularly relating the PCI and the upcoming
               platform specification. There are significant comments in the
               relevant files. This is still a WIP, but I think we're close
               to getting as good as we're going to get until we end up with
               some more specifications.
    
       (v6) As it's been only a day since the v5 patch set, the changes are
            pretty minimal:
    
             - The patch set is now based on linux-next/master, which I
               believe is a better base now that we're getting closer to
               upstream.
    
             - EARLY_PRINTK is no longer an option. Since the SBI console is
               reasonable, there's no penalty to enabling it (and thus no
               benefit to disabling it).
    
             - The mmap syscalls were refactored a bit.
    
       (v5) Things have really started to calm down, so this is fairly
            similar to the v4 patch set. The most interesting changes
            include:
    
             - We've moved back to a single patch set.
    
             - SMP support has been fixed, I was accidentally running on a
               non-SMP configuration. There were various mistakes all over
               the tree as a result of this.
    
             - The cmpxchg syscalls have been removed, as they were deemed a
               bad idea. As a result, RISC-V Linux systems mandate the A
               extension. The corresponding Kconfig entry to enable builds
               on non-A systems has been removed.
    
             - A few more atomic fixes: mostly fence changes, but those
               resulted in a handful of additional macros that were no
               longer necessary.
    
             - riscv_early_sie has been removed.
    
       (v4) There have only been a few changes since the v3 patch set:
    
             - The cmpxchg64 syscall is no longer enabled on 32-bit systems.
               It's not possible to provide this on SMP systems, and it's
               not necessary as glibc knows not to call it.
    
             - We provide a ELF_HWCAP so users can determine the ISA of the
               machine the kernel is running on.
    
             - The multi-line comments are in a better form.
    
             - There were a handful of headers that could be replaced with
               the asm-generic versions, and a few unnecessary definitions.
    
             - We no longer use printk, but instead use pr_*.
    
             - A few Kconfig and defconfig entries have been cleaned up.
    
       (v3) A highlight of the changes since the v2 patch set includes:
    
             - We've split out all our drivers into separate patch sets,
               which I've already sent out to the relevant maintainers. I
               haven't included those patches in this patch set, but some of
               them are necessary to build our port.
    
             - The patch set is now split up differently: rather than being
               split per directory it is split per topic. Hopefully this
               will make it easier to review the port on the mailing list.
               The split is a bit rough, so you probably still want to look
               at the patch set as a whole.
    
             - atomic.h has been completely rewritten and is hopefully now
               correct. I've attempted to sanitize the various other memory
               model related code as well, and I think it should all be sane
               now aside from a handful of FIXMEs commented in the code.
    
             - We've changed the cmpexchg syscall to always exist and to not
               be multiplexed. There is also a VDSO entry for compare and
               exchange, which allows kernels with the A extension to
               execute user code without the A extension reasonably fast.
    
             - Our user-visible register state now contains enough space for
               the Q extension for 128-bit floating point, as well as a few
               words to allow extensibility to future ISA extensions like
               the eventual V extension for vectors.
    
             - A handful of driver cleanups, but these have been split into
               separate patch sets now so I won't duplicate them here.
    
       (v2) A highlight of the changes since the v1 patch set includes:
    
             - We've split out our drivers into the right places, which
               means now there's a lot more patches. I'll be submitting
               these patches to various subsystem maintainers and including
               them in any future RISC-V patch sets until they've been
               merged.
    
             - The SBI console driver has been completely rewritten to use
               the HVC helpers and is now significantly smaller.
    
             - We've begun to use weaker barriers as opposed to just the big
               "fence". There's still some work to do here, specifically:
                - We need fences in the relaxed MMIO functions.
                - The non-relaxed MMIO functions are missing R/W bits on their fences.
                - Many AMOs need the aq and rl bits set.
    
             - We now have thread_info in task_struct. As a result, sscratch
               now contains TP instead of SP. This was necessary because
               thread_info is no longer on the stack.
    
             - A few shared routines have been added that we use instead of
               creating another arch copy"
    Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    
    * tag 'riscv-for-linus-4.15-arch-v9-premerge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux:
      RISC-V: Build Infrastructure
      RISC-V: User-facing API
      RISC-V: Paging and MMU
      RISC-V: Device, timer, IRQs, and the SBI
      RISC-V: Task implementation
      RISC-V: ELF and module implementation
      RISC-V: Generic library routines and assembly
      RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code
      RISC-V: Init and Halt Code
      dt-bindings: RISC-V CPU Bindings
      lib: Add shared copies of some GCC library routines
      MAINTAINERS: Add RISC-V
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