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Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
one would like.
The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how
much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.
This has several advantages:
1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
early in the kernel startup).
2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large
systems.
3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.
The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.
Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
__phys_addr()/__pa()."
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
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