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<title>linux.git/include/asm-generic/Kbuild, branch v6.12.80</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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<pre>
asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T19:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T19:09:03+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Most of this is part of my ongoing work to clean up the system call
  tables. In this bit, all of the newer architectures are converted to
  use the machine readable syscall.tbl format instead in place of
  complex macros in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h.

  This follows an earlier series that fixed various API mismatches and
  in turn is used as the base for planned simplifications.

  The other two patches are dead code removal and a warning fix"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  vmlinux.lds.h: catch .bss..L* sections into BSS")
  fixmap: Remove unused set_fixmap_offset_io()
  riscv: convert to generic syscall table
  openrisc: convert to generic syscall table
  nios2: convert to generic syscall table
  loongarch: convert to generic syscall table
  hexagon: use new system call table
  csky: convert to generic syscall table
  arm64: rework compat syscall macros
  arm64: generate 64-bit syscall.tbl
  arm64: convert unistd_32.h to syscall.tbl format
  arc: convert to generic syscall table
  clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro
  kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers
  kbuild: verify asm-generic header list
  loongarch: avoid generating extra header files
  um: don't generate asm/bpf_perf_event.h
  csky: drop asm/gpio.h wrapper
  syscalls: add generic scripts/syscall.tbl
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<pre>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Most of this is part of my ongoing work to clean up the system call
  tables. In this bit, all of the newer architectures are converted to
  use the machine readable syscall.tbl format instead in place of
  complex macros in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h.

  This follows an earlier series that fixed various API mismatches and
  in turn is used as the base for planned simplifications.

  The other two patches are dead code removal and a warning fix"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  vmlinux.lds.h: catch .bss..L* sections into BSS")
  fixmap: Remove unused set_fixmap_offset_io()
  riscv: convert to generic syscall table
  openrisc: convert to generic syscall table
  nios2: convert to generic syscall table
  loongarch: convert to generic syscall table
  hexagon: use new system call table
  csky: convert to generic syscall table
  arm64: rework compat syscall macros
  arm64: generate 64-bit syscall.tbl
  arm64: convert unistd_32.h to syscall.tbl format
  arc: convert to generic syscall table
  clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro
  kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers
  kbuild: verify asm-generic header list
  loongarch: avoid generating extra header files
  um: don't generate asm/bpf_perf_event.h
  csky: drop asm/gpio.h wrapper
  syscalls: add generic scripts/syscall.tbl
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: verify asm-generic header list</title>
<updated>2024-07-10T12:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-26T06:44:51+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In order to integrate the system call header generation with generating
the asm-generic wrappers, restrict the generated headers to those that
actually exist in include/asm-generic/.

The path is already known, so add these as a dependency.

The asm-generic/bugs.h header was removed in commit 61235b24b9cb ("init:
Remove check_bugs() leftovers"), which now causes a build failure, so
drop it from the list.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<pre>
In order to integrate the system call header generation with generating
the asm-generic wrappers, restrict the generated headers to those that
actually exist in include/asm-generic/.

The path is already known, so add these as a dependency.

The asm-generic/bugs.h header was removed in commit 61235b24b9cb ("init:
Remove check_bugs() leftovers"), which now causes a build failure, so
drop it from the list.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>runtime constants: add default dummy infrastructure</title>
<updated>2024-06-19T19:34:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-04T19:30:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This adds the initial dummy support for 'runtime constants' for when
an architecture doesn't actually support an implementation of fixing
up said runtime constants.

This ends up being the fallback to just using the variables as regular
__ro_after_init variables, and changes the dcache d_hash() function to
use this model.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This adds the initial dummy support for 'runtime constants' for when
an architecture doesn't actually support an implementation of fixing
up said runtime constants.

This ends up being the fallback to just using the variables as regular
__ro_after_init variables, and changes the dcache d_hash() function to
use this model.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Rename fbdev header and source files</title>
<updated>2024-05-03T15:07:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Zimmermann</name>
<email>tzimmermann@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-29T20:32:12+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The per-architecture fbdev code has no dependencies on fbdev and can
be used for any video-related subsystem. Rename the files to 'video'.
Use video-sti.c on parisc as the source file depends on CONFIG_STI_CORE.

On arc, arm, arm64, sh, and um the asm header file is an empty wrapper
around the file in asm-generic. Let Kbuild generate the file. The build
system does this automatically. Only um needs to generate video.h
explicitly, so that it overrides the host architecture's header. The
latter would otherwise interfere with the build.

Further update all includes statements, include guards, and Makefiles.
Also update a few strings and comments to refer to video instead of
fbdev.

v3:
- arc, arm, arm64, sh: generate asm header via build system (Sam,
Helge, Arnd)
- um: rename fb.h to video.h
- fix typo in commit message (Sam)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<pre>
The per-architecture fbdev code has no dependencies on fbdev and can
be used for any video-related subsystem. Rename the files to 'video'.
Use video-sti.c on parisc as the source file depends on CONFIG_STI_CORE.

On arc, arm, arm64, sh, and um the asm header file is an empty wrapper
around the file in asm-generic. Let Kbuild generate the file. The build
system does this automatically. Only um needs to generate video.h
explicitly, so that it overrides the host architecture's header. The
latter would otherwise interfere with the build.

Further update all includes statements, include guards, and Makefiles.
Also update a few strings and comments to refer to video instead of
fbdev.

v3:
- arc, arm, arm64, sh: generate asm header via build system (Sam,
Helge, Arnd)
- um: rename fb.h to video.h
- fix typo in commit message (Sam)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfi: Flip headers</title>
<updated>2023-12-16T00:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-15T09:12:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Normal include order is that linux/foo.h should include asm/foo.h, CFI has it
the wrong way around.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.231038174@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Normal include order is that linux/foo.h should include asm/foo.h, CFI has it
the wrong way around.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.231038174@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture</title>
<updated>2023-10-06T20:30:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T13:43:01+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix spelling of "architecture" in the Kbuild file.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<pre>
Fix spelling of "architecture" in the Kbuild file.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-6.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2022-08-04T22:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-04T22:10:55+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series fine tuning virtio support for Xen guests, including removal
   the now again unused "platform_has()" feature.

 - a fix for host admin triggered reboot of Xen guests

 - a simple spelling fix

* tag 'for-linus-6.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests
  kernel: remove platform_has() infrastructure
  virtio: replace restricted mem access flag with callback
  xen: Fix spelling mistake
  xen/manage: Use orderly_reboot() to reboot
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<pre>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series fine tuning virtio support for Xen guests, including removal
   the now again unused "platform_has()" feature.

 - a fix for host admin triggered reboot of Xen guests

 - a simple spelling fix

* tag 'for-linus-6.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests
  kernel: remove platform_has() infrastructure
  virtio: replace restricted mem access flag with callback
  xen: Fix spelling mistake
  xen/manage: Use orderly_reboot() to reboot
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: remove platform_has() infrastructure</title>
<updated>2022-08-01T05:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-22T06:38:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a870544ca9d215449e91ebc01e35d80b23151c78'/>
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<content type='text'>
The only use case of the platform_has() infrastructure has been
removed again, so remove the whole feature.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 guest using Xen
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The only use case of the platform_has() infrastructure has been
removed again, so remove the whole feature.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 guest using Xen
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM</title>
<updated>2022-07-18T13:03:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-05T18:48:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=9592eef7c16ec5fb9f36c4d9abe8eeffc2e1d2f3'/>
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<content type='text'>
When RDRAND was introduced, there was much discussion on whether it
should be trusted and how the kernel should handle that. Initially, two
mechanisms cropped up, CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM, a compile time switch, and
"nordrand", a boot-time switch.

Later the thinking evolved. With a properly designed RNG, using RDRAND
values alone won't harm anything, even if the outputs are malicious.
Rather, the issue is whether those values are being *trusted* to be good
or not. And so a new set of options were introduced as the real
ones that people use -- CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU and "random.trust_cpu".
With these options, RDRAND is used, but it's not always credited. So in
the worst case, it does nothing, and in the best case, maybe it helps.

Along the way, CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM's meaning got sort of pulled into the
center and became something certain platforms force-select.

The old options don't really help with much, and it's a bit odd to have
special handling for these instructions when the kernel can deal fine
with the existence or untrusted existence or broken existence or
non-existence of that CPU capability.

Simplify the situation by removing CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM and using the
ordinary asm-generic fallback pattern instead, keeping the two options
that are actually used. For now it leaves "nordrand" for now, as the
removal of that will take a different route.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
</content>
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When RDRAND was introduced, there was much discussion on whether it
should be trusted and how the kernel should handle that. Initially, two
mechanisms cropped up, CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM, a compile time switch, and
"nordrand", a boot-time switch.

Later the thinking evolved. With a properly designed RNG, using RDRAND
values alone won't harm anything, even if the outputs are malicious.
Rather, the issue is whether those values are being *trusted* to be good
or not. And so a new set of options were introduced as the real
ones that people use -- CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU and "random.trust_cpu".
With these options, RDRAND is used, but it's not always credited. So in
the worst case, it does nothing, and in the best case, maybe it helps.

Along the way, CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM's meaning got sort of pulled into the
center and became something certain platforms force-select.

The old options don't really help with much, and it's a bit odd to have
special handling for these instructions when the kernel can deal fine
with the existence or untrusted existence or broken existence or
non-existence of that CPU capability.

Simplify the situation by removing CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM and using the
ordinary asm-generic fallback pattern instead, keeping the two options
that are actually used. For now it leaves "nordrand" for now, as the
removal of that will take a different route.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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