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arm64 updates for 3.19

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Changes include:
  - Support for alternative instruction patching from Andre
  - seccomp from Akashi
  - Some AArch32 instruction emulation, required by the Android folks
  - Optimisations for exception entry/exit code, cmpxchg, pcpu atomics
  - mmu_gather range calculations moved into core code
  - EFI updates from Ard, including long-awaited SMBIOS support
  - /proc/cpuinfo fixes to align with the format used by arch/arm/
  - A few non-critical fixes across the architecture
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Here's the usual mixed bag of arm64 updates, also including some
  related EFI changes (Acked by Matt) and the MMU gather range cleanup
  (Acked by you).

  Changes include:
   - support for alternative instruction patching from Andre
   - seccomp from Akashi
   - some AArch32 instruction emulation, required by the Android folks
   - optimisations for exception entry/exit code, cmpxchg, pcpu atomics
   - mmu_gather range calculations moved into core code
   - EFI updates from Ard, including long-awaited SMBIOS support
   - /proc/cpuinfo fixes to align with the format used by arch/arm/
   - a few non-critical fixes across the architecture"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
  arm64: remove the unnecessary arm64_swiotlb_init()
  arm64: add module support for alternatives fixups
  arm64: perf: Prevent wraparound during overflow
  arm64/include/asm: Fixed a warning about 'struct pt_regs'
  arm64: Provide a namespace to NCAPS
  arm64: bpf: lift restriction on last instruction
  arm64: Implement support for read-mostly sections
  arm64: compat: align cacheflush syscall with arch/arm
  arm64: add seccomp support
  arm64: add SIGSYS siginfo for compat task
  arm64: add seccomp syscall for compat task
  asm-generic: add generic seccomp.h for secure computing mode 1
  arm64: ptrace: allow tracer to skip a system call
  arm64: ptrace: add NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL regset
  arm64: Move some head.text functions to executable section
  arm64: jump labels: NOP out NOP -> NOP replacement
  arm64: add support to dump the kernel page tables
  arm64: Add FIX_HOLE to permanent fixed addresses
  arm64: alternatives: fix pr_fmt string for consistency
  arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: don't discard .exit.* sections at link-time
  ...
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Linus Torvalds 2014-12-09 13:12:47 -08:00
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@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
#define NT_ARM_TLS 0x401 /* ARM TLS register */
#define NT_ARM_HW_BREAK 0x402 /* ARM hardware breakpoint registers */
#define NT_ARM_HW_WATCH 0x403 /* ARM hardware watchpoint registers */
#define NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL 0x404 /* ARM system call number */
#define NT_METAG_CBUF 0x500 /* Metag catch buffer registers */
#define NT_METAG_RPIPE 0x501 /* Metag read pipeline state */
#define NT_METAG_TLS 0x502 /* Metag TLS pointer */