46f8763228
- Support for the Arm8.6 timer extensions, including a self-synchronising
view of the system registers to elide some expensive ISB instructions.
- Exception table cleanup and rework so that the fixup handlers appear
correctly in backtraces.
- A handful of miscellaneous changes, the main one being selection of
CONFIG_HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK.
- More mm and pgtable cleanups.
- KASAN support for "asymmetric" MTE, where tag faults are reported
synchronously for loads (via an exception) and asynchronously for
stores (via a register).
- Support for leaving the MMU enabled during kexec relocation, which
significantly speeds up the operation.
- Minor improvements to our perf PMU drivers.
- Improvements to the compat vDSO build system, particularly when
building with LLVM=1.
- Preparatory work for handling some Coresight TRBE tracing errata.
- Cleanup and refactoring of the SVE code to pave the way for SME
support in future.
- Ensure SCS pages are unpoisoned immediately prior to freeing them
when KASAN is enabled for the vmalloc area.
- Try moving to the generic pfn_valid() implementation again now that
the DMA mapping issue from last time has been resolved.
- Numerous improvements and additions to our FPSIMD and SVE selftests.
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"There's the usual summary below, but the highlights are support for
the Armv8.6 timer extensions, KASAN support for asymmetric MTE, the
ability to kexec() with the MMU enabled and a second attempt at
switching to the generic pfn_valid() implementation.
Summary:
- Support for the Arm8.6 timer extensions, including a
self-synchronising view of the system registers to elide some
expensive ISB instructions.
- Exception table cleanup and rework so that the fixup handlers
appear correctly in backtraces.
- A handful of miscellaneous changes, the main one being selection of
CONFIG_HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK.
- More mm and pgtable cleanups.
- KASAN support for "asymmetric" MTE, where tag faults are reported
synchronously for loads (via an exception) and asynchronously for
stores (via a register).
- Support for leaving the MMU enabled during kexec relocation, which
significantly speeds up the operation.
- Minor improvements to our perf PMU drivers.
- Improvements to the compat vDSO build system, particularly when
building with LLVM=1.
- Preparatory work for handling some Coresight TRBE tracing errata.
- Cleanup and refactoring of the SVE code to pave the way for SME
support in future.
- Ensure SCS pages are unpoisoned immediately prior to freeing them
when KASAN is enabled for the vmalloc area.
- Try moving to the generic pfn_valid() implementation again now that
the DMA mapping issue from last time has been resolved.
- Numerous improvements and additions to our FPSIMD and SVE
selftests"
[ armv8.6 timer updates were in a shared branch and already came in
through -tip in the timer pull - Linus ]
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (85 commits)
arm64: Select POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
arm64: Document boot requirements for FEAT_SME_FA64
arm64/sve: Fix warnings when SVE is disabled
arm64/sve: Add stub for sve_max_virtualisable_vl()
arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE write to out-of-range
arm64: errata: Add workaround for TSB flush failures
arm64: errata: Add detection for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
selftests: arm64: Factor out utility functions for assembly FP tests
arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: remove `.fixup` section
arm64: extable: add load_unaligned_zeropad() handler
arm64: extable: add a dedicated uaccess handler
arm64: extable: add `type` and `data` fields
arm64: extable: use `ex` for `exception_table_entry`
arm64: extable: make fixup_exception() return bool
arm64: extable: consolidate definitions
arm64: gpr-num: support W registers
arm64: factor out GPR numbering helpers
arm64: kvm: use kvm_exception_table_entry
arm64: lib: __arch_copy_to_user(): fold fixups into body
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