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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
- arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}
- Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly
- Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)
- Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)
- Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)
- Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
secondary CPUs during panic
- perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
platforms
- perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP
- cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers
- Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent
- arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups
- Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)
- Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)
- CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig
- Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
over into the vmalloc area
- Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
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