[GIT PULL] arm64: fixes for -rc5

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri May 11 10:30:20 PDT 2018


Hi Linus,

Please pull these arm64 fixes for -rc5. There's a small memblock accounting
problem when freeing the initrd and a Spectre-v2 mitigation for NVIDIA Denver
CPUs which just requires a match on the CPU ID register.

Thanks,

Will

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The following changes since commit 6da6c0db5316275015e8cc2959f12a17584aeb64:

  Linux v4.17-rc3 (2018-04-29 14:17:42 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git tags/arm64-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to 0583a4ef05987f7e0f3a7bdd3365e5dc36ca306d:

  arm64: capabilities: Add NVIDIA Denver CPU to bp_harden list (2018-05-09 14:28:28 +0100)

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arm64 fixes:

- Mitigate Spectre-v2 for NVIDIA Denver CPUs

- Free memblocks corresponding to freed initrd area

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CHANDAN VN (1):
      arm64: To remove initrd reserved area entry from memblock

David Gilhooley (2):
      arm64: Add MIDR encoding for NVIDIA CPUs
      arm64: capabilities: Add NVIDIA Denver CPU to bp_harden list

 arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 6 ++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c   | 1 +
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c             | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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