5c6bd5de3c
- boot_mem_map is removed, providing a nice cleanup made possible by the
recent removal of bootmem.
- Some fixes to atomics, in general providing compiler barriers for
smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic plus fixes specific to Loongson CPUs or
MIPS32 systems using cmpxchg64().
- Conversion to the new generic VDSO infrastructure courtesy of Vincenzo
Frascino.
- Removal of undefined behavior in set_io_port_base(), fixing the
behavior of some MIPS kernel configurations when built with recent
clang versions.
- Initial MIPS32 huge page support, functional on at least Ingenic SoCs.
- pte_special() is now supported for some configurations, allowing among
other things generic fast GUP to be used.
- Miscellaneous fixes & cleanups.
And platform specific changes:
- Major improvements to Ingenic SoC support from Paul Cercueil, mostly
enabled by the inclusion of the new TCU (timer-counter unit) drivers
he's spent a very patient year or so working on. Plus some fixes for
X1000 SoCs from Zhou Yanjie.
- Netgear R6200 v1 systems are now supported by the bcm47xx platform.
- DT updates for BMIPS, Lantiq & Microsemi Ocelot systems.
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Merge tag 'mips_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux
Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
"Main MIPS changes:
- boot_mem_map is removed, providing a nice cleanup made possible by
the recent removal of bootmem.
- Some fixes to atomics, in general providing compiler barriers for
smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic plus fixes specific to Loongson CPUs
or MIPS32 systems using cmpxchg64().
- Conversion to the new generic VDSO infrastructure courtesy of
Vincenzo Frascino.
- Removal of undefined behavior in set_io_port_base(), fixing the
behavior of some MIPS kernel configurations when built with recent
clang versions.
- Initial MIPS32 huge page support, functional on at least Ingenic
SoCs.
- pte_special() is now supported for some configurations, allowing
among other things generic fast GUP to be used.
- Miscellaneous fixes & cleanups.
And platform specific changes:
- Major improvements to Ingenic SoC support from Paul Cercueil,
mostly enabled by the inclusion of the new TCU (timer-counter unit)
drivers he's spent a very patient year or so working on. Plus some
fixes for X1000 SoCs from Zhou Yanjie.
- Netgear R6200 v1 systems are now supported by the bcm47xx platform.
- DT updates for BMIPS, Lantiq & Microsemi Ocelot systems"
* tag 'mips_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (89 commits)
MIPS: Detect bad _PFN_SHIFT values
MIPS: Disable pte_special() for MIPS32 with RiXi
MIPS: ralink: deactivate PCI support for SOC_MT7621
mips: compat: vdso: Use legacy syscalls as fallback
MIPS: Drop Loongson _CACHE_* definitions
MIPS: tlbex: Remove cpu_has_local_ebase
MIPS: tlbex: Simplify r3k check
MIPS: Select R3k-style TLB in Kconfig
MIPS: PCI: refactor ioc3 special handling
mips: remove ioremap_cachable
mips/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
mips/atomic: Fix loongson_llsc_mb() wreckage
mips/atomic: Fix cmpxchg64 barriers
MIPS: Octeon: remove duplicated include from dma-octeon.c
firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Allow COMPILE_TEST
firmware: bcm47xx_nvram: Correct size_t printf format
MIPS: Treat Loongson Extensions as ASEs
MIPS: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq()
MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP ready interrupt
MIPS: dts: mscc: describe the PTP register range
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