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Linus Torvalds
918d80a136
Pull x86 cpu handling changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Bigger changes:
- Intel CPU hardware-enablement: new vector instructions support
(AVX-512), by Fenghua Yu.
- Support the clflushopt instruction and use it in appropriate
places. clflushopt is similar to clflush but with more relaxed
ordering, by Ross Zwisler.
- MSR accessor cleanups, by Borislav Petkov.
- 'forcepae' boot flag for those who have way too much time to spend
on way too old Pentium-M systems and want to live way too
dangerously, by Chris Bainbridge"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpu: Add forcepae parameter for booting PAE kernels on PAE-disabled Pentium M
Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
x86, intel: Make MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bit constants systematic
x86, Intel: Convert to the new bit access MSR accessors
x86, AMD: Convert to the new bit access MSR accessors
x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions
x86: Use clflushopt in drm_clflush_virt_range
x86: Use clflushopt in drm_clflush_page
x86: Use clflushopt in clflush_cache_range
x86: Add support for the clflushopt instruction
x86, AVX-512: Enable AVX-512 States Context Switch
x86, AVX-512: AVX-512 Feature Detection
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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see: *
* http://dri.freedesktop.org/ *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html