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Linus Torvalds
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"Many great new features, fixes and optimizations, including:
- Convert page table updates to use per-pagetable spinlocks which
overall improves performance on SMP machines a lot, by Mikulas
Patocka
- Kernel debugger (KGDB) support, by Sven Schnelle
- KPROBES support, by Sven Schnelle
- Lots of TLB lock/flush improvements, by Dave Anglin
- Drop DISCONTIGMEM and switch to SPARSEMEM
- Added JUMP_LABEL, branch runtime-patching support
- Lots of other small speedups and cleanups, e.g. for QEMU, stack
randomization, avoidance of name clashes, documentation updates,
etc ..."
* 'parisc-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: (28 commits)
parisc: Add static branch and JUMP_LABEL feature
parisc: Use PA_ASM_LEVEL in boot code
parisc: Rename LEVEL to PA_ASM_LEVEL to avoid name clash with DRBD code
parisc: Update huge TLB page support to use per-pagetable spinlock
parisc: Use per-pagetable spinlock
parisc: Allow live-patching of __meminit functions
parisc: Add memory barrier to asm pdc and sync instructions
parisc: Add memory clobber to TLB purges
parisc: Use ldcw instruction for SMP spinlock release barrier
parisc: Remove lock code to serialize TLB operations in pacache.S
parisc: Switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM
parisc: enable wide mode early
parisc: update feature lists
parisc: Show n/a if product number not available
parisc: remove unused flags parameter in __patch_text()
doc: update kprobes supported architecture list
parisc: Implement kretprobes
parisc: remove kprobes.h from generic-y
parisc: Implement kprobes
parisc: add functions required by KPROBE_EVENTS
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