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    Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · d691b7e7
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
     "Highlights include:
    
       - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs.
    
       - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board
    
       - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs.
    
       - Generic & powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting
    
       - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface
    
       - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths
    
       - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9.
    
      As well as many other fixes and improvements.
    
      Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman
      Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
      Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
      Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier
      Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown,
      Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N.
      Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek,
      Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung
      Bauermann, Yang Li"
    
    * tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
      powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs
      powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix
      powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash
      powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M
      powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction()
      powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon
      powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction()
      powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction()
      powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors
      powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp()
      powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes
      powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap
      powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes
      powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE
      powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes
      powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label
      powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols
      cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL
      powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT
      powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8
      ...
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