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    Merge tag 'mips_4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux · 89261c57
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
     "Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes
      include:
    
       - Syscall tables & definitions for unistd.h are now generated by
         scripts, providing greater consistency with other architectures &
         making it easier to add new syscalls.
    
       - Support for building kernels with no floating point support, upon
         which any userland attempting to use floating point instructions
         will receive a SIGILL. Mostly useful to shrink the kernel & as
         preparation for nanoMIPS support which does not yet include FP.
    
       - MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) vector register context is now exposed
         by ptrace via a new NT_MIPS_MSA regset.
    
       - ASIDs are now stored as 64b values even for MIPS32 kernels,
         expanding the ASID version field sufficiently that we don't need to
         worry about overflow & avoiding rare issues with reused ASIDs that
         have been observed in the wild.
    
       - The branch delay slot "emulation" page is now mapped without write
         permission for the user, preventing its use as a nice location for
         attacks to execute malicious code from.
    
       - Support for ioremap_prot(), primarily to allow gdb or other ptrace
         users the ability to view their tracee's memory using the same
         cache coherency attribute.
    
       - Optimizations to more cpu_has_* macros, allowing more to be
         compile-time constant where possible.
    
       - Enable building the whole kernel with UBSAN instrumentation.
    
       - Enable building the kernel with link-time dead code & data
         elimination.
    
      Platform specific changes include:
    
       - The Boston board gains a workaround for DMA prefetching issues with
         the EG20T Platform Controller Hub that it uses.
    
       - Cleanups to Cavium Octeon code removing about 20k lines of
         redundant code, mostly unused or duplicate register definitions in
         headers.
    
       - defconfig updates for the DECstation machines, including new
         defconfigs for r4k & 64b machines.
    
       - Further work on Loongson 3 support.
    
       - DMA fixes for SiByte machines"
    
    * tag 'mips_4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (95 commits)
      MIPS: math-emu: Write-protect delay slot emulation pages
      MIPS: Remove struct mm_context_t fp_mode_switching field
      mips: generate uapi header and system call table files
      mips: add system call table generation support
      mips: remove syscall table entries
      mips: add +1 to __NR_syscalls in uapi header
      mips: rename scall64-64.S to scall64-n64.S
      mips: remove unused macros
      mips: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_Linux_syscalls
      MIPS: Expand MIPS32 ASIDs to 64 bits
      MIPS: OCTEON: delete redundant register definitions
      MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_gmxx_inf_mode: use oldest forward compatible definition
      MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_mio_fus_dat3: use oldest forward compatible definition
      MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_pko_mem_debug8: use oldest forward compatible definition
      MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use common gpio_bit definition
      MIPS: OCTEON: enable all OCTEON drivers in defconfig
      mips: annotate implicit fall throughs
      MIPS: Hardcode cpu_has_mips* where target ISA allows
      MIPS: MT: Remove norps command line parameter
      MIPS: Only include mmzone.h when CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y
      ...
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