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  1. Jul 05, 2013
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · 65b97fb7
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
       "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
        the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:
      
         - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
           server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
           huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.
      
         - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy
      
         - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
           putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah
      
         - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
           and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
           but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
           hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.
      
         - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
           usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
           hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
           processors).
      
         - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
           Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
           interrupts" for performance monitor events.
      
         - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
           breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.
      
        And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
        something that somebody deemed worth it."
      
      * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
        pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
        powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
        powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
        powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
        powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
        powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
        powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
        powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
        powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
        powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
        powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
        powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
        powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
        pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
        powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
        powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
        powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
        powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
        powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
        powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
        ...
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  2. Jul 04, 2013