57b8b1b435
Remove unused functions and parameters from ACPI IORT code.
(Zenghui Yu via Lorenzo Pieralisi)
* for-next/acpi:
ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused inline functions
ACPI/IORT: Drop the unused @ops of iort_add_device_replay()
Remove redundant code and fix documentation of caching behaviour for the
HVC_SOFT_RESTART hypercall.
(Pingfan Liu)
* for-next/boot:
Documentation/kvm/arm: improve description of HVC_SOFT_RESTART
arm64/relocate_kernel: remove redundant code
Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT failure.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/bpf:
arm64: Improve diagnostics when trapping BRK with FAULT_BRK_IMM
Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their corresponding
numerical constants.
(Anshuman Khandual)
* for-next/cpuinfo:
arm64/cpuinfo: Define HWCAP name arrays per their actual bit definitions
Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in preparation
for potential future optimisation of handling across syscalls.
(Julien Grall)
* for-next/fpsimd:
arm64/sve: Implement a helper to load SVE registers from FPSIMD state
arm64/sve: Implement a helper to flush SVE registers
arm64/fpsimdmacros: Allow the macro "for" to be used in more cases
arm64/fpsimdmacros: Introduce a macro to update ZCR_EL1.LEN
arm64/signal: Update the comment in preserve_sve_context
arm64/fpsimd: Update documentation of do_sve_acc
Miscellaneous changes.
(Tian Tao and others)
* for-next/misc:
arm64/mm: return cpu_all_mask when node is NUMA_NO_NODE
arm64: mm: Fix missing-prototypes in pageattr.c
arm64/fpsimd: Fix missing-prototypes in fpsimd.c
arm64: hibernate: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
arm64/mm: Refactor {pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_ERROR()
arm64: Remove the unused include statements
arm64: get rid of TEXT_OFFSET
arm64: traps: Add str of description to panic() in die()
Memory management updates and cleanups.
(Anshuman Khandual and others)
* for-next/mm:
arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PMD_SHIFT
arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PTE_SHIFT
arm64/mm: Remove CONT_RANGE_OFFSET
arm64/mm: Enable THP migration
arm64/mm: Change THP helpers to comply with generic MM semantics
arm64/mm/ptdump: Add address markers for BPF regions
Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
non-cacheable mappings.
(Clint Sbisa)
* for-next/pci:
arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs
Perf/PMU driver updates.
(Julien Thierry and others)
* for-next/perf:
perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
arm_pmu: arm64: Use NMIs for PMU
arm_pmu: Introduce pmu_irq_ops
KVM: arm64: pmu: Make overflow handler NMI safe
arm64: perf: Defer irq_work to IPI_IRQ_WORK
arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking
arm64: perf: Avoid PMXEV* indirection
arm64: perf: Add missing ISB in armv8pmu_enable_counter()
perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driver
perf: Add Arm CMN-600 DT binding
arm64: perf: Add support caps under sysfs
drivers/perf: thunderx2_pmu: Fix memory resource error handling
drivers/perf: xgene_pmu: Fix uninitialized resource struct
perf: arm_dsu: Support DSU ACPI devices
arm64: perf: Remove unnecessary event_idx check
drivers/perf: hisi: Add missing include of linux/module.h
arm64: perf: Add general hardware LLC events for PMUv3
Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.
(By Amit Daniel Kachhap)
* for-next/ptrauth:
arm64: kprobe: clarify the comment of steppable hint instructions
arm64: kprobe: disable probe of fault prone ptrauth instruction
arm64: cpufeature: Modify address authentication cpufeature to exact
arm64: ptrauth: Introduce Armv8.3 pointer authentication enhancements
arm64: traps: Allow force_signal_inject to pass esr error code
arm64: kprobe: add checks for ARMv8.3-PAuth combined instructions
Tonnes of cleanup to the SDEI driver.
(Gavin Shan)
* for-next/sdei:
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_unregister()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_register()
firmware: arm_sdei: Introduce sdei_do_local_call()
firmware: arm_sdei: Cleanup on cross call function
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_unregister()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_register()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove redundant error message in sdei_probe()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove duplicate check in sdei_get_conduit()
firmware: arm_sdei: Unregister driver on error in sdei_init()
firmware: arm_sdei: Avoid nested statements in sdei_init()
firmware: arm_sdei: Retrieve event number from event instance
firmware: arm_sdei: Common block for failing path in sdei_event_create()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove sdei_is_err()
Selftests for Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context-switching.
(Mark Brown and Boyan Karatotev)
* for-next/selftests:
selftests: arm64: Add build and documentation for FP tests
selftests: arm64: Add wrapper scripts for stress tests
selftests: arm64: Add utility to set SVE vector lengths
selftests: arm64: Add stress tests for FPSMID and SVE context switching
selftests: arm64: Add test for the SVE ptrace interface
selftests: arm64: Test case for enumeration of SVE vector lengths
kselftests/arm64: add PAuth tests for single threaded consistency and differently initialized keys
kselftests/arm64: add PAuth test for whether exec() changes keys
kselftests/arm64: add nop checks for PAuth tests
kselftests/arm64: add a basic Pointer Authentication test
Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.
(Mark Brown)
* for-next/stacktrace:
arm64: Move console stack display code to stacktrace.c
arm64: stacktrace: Convert to ARCH_STACKWALK
arm64: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
stacktrace: Remove reliable argument from arch_stack_walk() callback
Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing page-tables with
the SMMU.
(Jean-Philippe Brucker)
* for-next/svm:
arm64: cpufeature: Export symbol read_sanitised_ftr_reg()
arm64: mm: Pin down ASIDs for sharing mm with devices
Rely on firmware tables for establishing CPU topology.
(Valentin Schneider)
* for-next/topology:
arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information
Spelling fixes.
(Xiaoming Ni and Yanfei Xu)
* for-next/tpyos:
arm64/numa: Fix a typo in comment of arm64_numa_init
arm64: fix some spelling mistakes in the comments by codespell
vDSO cleanups.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/vdso:
arm64: vdso: Fix unusual formatting in *setup_additional_pages()
arm64: vdso32: Remove a bunch of #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO guards
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