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Pull x86 irq updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Here are the main changes in this tree:
- Introduce x86-64 IRQ/exception/debug stack guard pages to detect
stack overflows immediately and deterministically.
- Clean up over a decade worth of cruft accumulated.
The outcome of this should be more clear-cut faults/crashes when any
of the low level x86 CPU stacks overflow, instead of silent memory
corruption and sporadic failures much later on"
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
x86/irq: Fix outdated comments
x86/irq/64: Remove stack overflow debug code
x86/irq/64: Remap the IRQ stack with guard pages
x86/irq/64: Split the IRQ stack into its own pages
x86/irq/64: Init hardirq_stack_ptr during CPU hotplug
x86/irq/32: Handle irq stack allocation failure proper
x86/irq/32: Invoke irq_ctx_init() from init_IRQ()
x86/irq/64: Rename irq_stack_ptr to hardirq_stack_ptr
x86/irq/32: Rename hard/softirq_stack to hard/softirq_stack_ptr
x86/irq/32: Make irq stack a character array
x86/irq/32: Define IRQ_STACK_SIZE
x86/dumpstack/64: Speedup in_exception_stack()
x86/exceptions: Split debug IST stack
x86/exceptions: Enable IST guard pages
x86/exceptions: Disconnect IST index and stack order
x86/cpu: Remove orig_ist array
x86/cpu: Prepare TSS.IST setup for guard pages
x86/dumpstack/64: Use cpu_entry_area instead of orig_ist
x86/irq/64: Use cpu entry area instead of orig_ist
x86/traps: Use cpu_entry_area instead of orig_ist
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