[GIT PULL] arm64 updates for 4.6

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 18 09:46:08 PDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 08:08:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6. There are some relatively
> > intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel virtual
> > memory layout and initial page table creation. These would conflict with
> > some of the arm64 KVM changes merged via the KVM tree (adding support
> > for the "Virtualisation Host Extensions" ARMv8.1 feature). The prior
> > merge resolution in linux-next should be fine but I also included the
> > output of "git show --cc" on a local merge I did against last night's
> > mainline tree (at the end of this email). If there are any issues please
> > let me know.
> 
> I think I got the same merge resolution except for the ordering of the
> arm64_features[] table, where I made ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN go after
> ARM64_ALT_PAN_NOT_UAO, the way it is numbered. That shouldn't matter.
> 
> But since I don't do cross builds or test arm64, you should
> double-check that I didn't screw something up.

The merge conflict resolution is fine, thanks (we have a bug to fix on
the interaction between the new KVM features and KASLR;  patches should
appear sometime next week).

-- 
Catalin



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