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linux-next/Documentation/powerpc
Linus Torvalds d691b7e7d1 powerpc updates for 4.13
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.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

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
  ...
2017-07-07 13:55:45 -07:00
..
00-INDEX powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR support 2015-06-07 19:29:27 +10:00
bootwrapper.txt
cpu_families.txt powerpc: Add cpu family documentation 2014-06-05 13:20:01 +10:00
cpu_features.txt Documentation/powerpc: Fix path to the powerpc directory 2013-01-10 17:01:50 +11:00
cxl.txt cxl: Add psl9 specific code 2017-04-13 23:34:31 +10:00
cxlflash.txt scsi: cxlflash: Support AFU debug 2017-06-26 15:01:12 -04:00
dscr.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt powerpc/eeh: rename EEH from "extended" to "enhanced" error handling 2016-04-11 20:30:42 +10:00
firmware-assisted-dump.txt powerpc/fadump: Update comment about offset where fadump is reserved 2017-06-02 20:16:49 +10:00
hvcs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mpc52xx.txt Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup 2012-03-18 23:59:34 +01:00
pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentation 2015-03-31 13:02:38 +11:00
pmu-ebb.txt powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s 2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
ptrace.txt powerpc/ptrace: Add DAWR debug feature info for userspace 2013-04-18 15:59:55 +10:00
qe_firmware.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
syscall64-abi.txt powerpc/64: Document the syscall ABI 2016-09-20 14:36:14 +10:00
transactional_memory.txt powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal frames 2016-08-29 12:48:40 +10:00