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Pull arm64 festive updates from Will Deacon:
"In the end, we ended up with quite a lot more than I expected:
- Support for ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication in userspace (CRIU and
kernel-side support to come later)
- Support for per-thread stack canaries, pending an update to GCC
that is currently undergoing review
- Support for kexec_file_load(), which permits secure boot of a kexec
payload but also happens to improve the performance of kexec
dramatically because we can avoid the sucky purgatory code from
userspace. Kdump will come later (requires updates to libfdt).
- Optimisation of our dynamic CPU feature framework, so that all
detected features are enabled via a single stop_machine()
invocation
- KPTI whitelisting of Cortex-A CPUs unaffected by Meltdown, so that
they can benefit from global TLB entries when KASLR is not in use
- 52-bit virtual addressing for userspace (kernel remains 48-bit)
- Patch in LSE atomics for per-cpu atomic operations
- Custom preempt.h implementation to avoid unconditional calls to
preempt_schedule() from preempt_enable()
- Support for the new 'SB' Speculation Barrier instruction
- Vectorised implementation of XOR checksumming and CRC32
optimisations
- Workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum #1165522
- Improved compatibility with Clang/LLD
- Support for TX2 system PMUS for profiling the L3 cache and DMC
- Reflect read-only permissions in the linear map by default
- Ensure MMIO reads are ordered with subsequent calls to Xdelay()
- Initial support for memory hotplug
- Tweak the threshold when we invalidate the TLB by-ASID, so that
mremap() performance is improved for ranges spanning multiple PMDs.
- Minor refactoring and cleanups"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (125 commits)
arm64: kaslr: print PHYS_OFFSET in dump_kernel_offset()
arm64: sysreg: Use _BITUL() when defining register bits
arm64: cpufeature: Rework ptr auth hwcaps using multi_entry_cap_matches
arm64: cpufeature: Reduce number of pointer auth CPU caps from 6 to 4
arm64: docs: document pointer authentication
arm64: ptr auth: Move per-thread keys from thread_info to thread_struct
arm64: enable pointer authentication
arm64: add prctl control for resetting ptrauth keys
arm64: perf: strip PAC when unwinding userspace
arm64: expose user PAC bit positions via ptrace
arm64: add basic pointer authentication support
arm64/cpufeature: detect pointer authentication
arm64: Don't trap host pointer auth use to EL2
arm64/kvm: hide ptrauth from guests
arm64/kvm: consistently handle host HCR_EL2 flags
arm64: add pointer authentication register bits
arm64: add comments about EC exception levels
arm64: perf: Treat EXCLUDE_EL* bit definitions as unsigned
arm64: kpti: Whitelist Cortex-A CPUs that don't implement the CSV3 field
arm64: enable per-task stack canaries
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