[PATCH 0/3] arm64: Kill ESR_LNX_EXEC

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:33:00PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently we (ab)use a reserved bit in ESR_ELx for our own purposes as
> ESR_LNX_EXEC, which isn't ideal, especially as we're inconsistent with our
> mnemonic usage. This series removes ESR_LNX_EXEC entirely, avoiding (ab)use of
> reserved ESR_ELx bits, and makes things a little more consistent.
> 
> I've extracted this from my entry-deasm branch [1], and rebased to v4.7-rc1.
> I've split the KVM changes as the KVM code is undergoing rapid change these
> days, and it should be possible to take those as a subsequent cleanup rather
> than forcing a painful merging process.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/entry-deasm
> 
> 
> Mark Rutland (3):
>   arm64: add macro to extract ESR_ELx.EC
>   arm64/kvm: use ESR_ELx_EC to extract EC
>   arm64: kill ESR_LNX_EXEC

I queued these 3 patches for 4.8. Thanks.

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Catalin