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    Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux · 23221d99
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
     "Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
      tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
      pieces are:
    
       - Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
         that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system
    
       - Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
         elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
         instructions
    
       - Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
         codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
         which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
         mapped as executable
    
       - Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
         well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
         and made consistent between different fault types
    
       - More siginfo cleanup ...
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