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Linus Torvalds
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Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Continued work to add support for 5-level paging provided by future
Intel CPUs. In particular we switch the x86 GUP code to the generic
implementation. (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Continued work to add PCID CPU support to native kernels as well.
In this round most of the focus is on reworking/refreshing the TLB
flush infrastructure for the upcoming PCID changes. (Andy
Lutomirski)"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
x86/mm: Delete a big outdated comment about TLB flushing
x86/mm: Don't reenter flush_tlb_func_common()
x86/KASLR: Fix detection 32/64 bit bootloaders for 5-level paging
x86/ftrace: Exclude functions in head64.c from function-tracing
x86/mmap, ASLR: Do not treat unlimited-stack tasks as legacy mmap
x86/mm: Remove reset_lazy_tlbstate()
x86/ldt: Simplify the LDT switching logic
x86/boot/64: Put __startup_64() into .head.text
x86/mm: Add support for 5-level paging for KASLR
x86/mm: Make kernel_physical_mapping_init() support 5-level paging
x86/mm: Add sync_global_pgds() for configuration with 5-level paging
x86/boot/64: Add support of additional page table level during early boot
x86/boot/64: Rename init_level4_pgt and early_level4_pgt
x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C
x86/boot/compressed: Enable 5-level paging during decompression stage
x86/boot/efi: Define __KERNEL32_CS GDT on 64-bit configurations
x86/boot/efi: Fix __KERNEL_CS definition of GDT entry on 64-bit configurations
x86/boot/efi: Cleanup initialization of GDT entries
x86/asm: Fix comment in return_from_SYSCALL_64()
x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation
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