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    Merge branch 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 6dc2cce9
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pul x86/process updates from Ingo Molnar:
     "The main change in this cycle was to add the ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
      prctl() ABI extension to control the availability of the CPUID
      instruction, analogously to the existing PR_GET|SET_TSC ABI that
      controls RDTSC.
    
      Motivation: the 'rr' user-space record-and-replay execution debugger
      would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction - which
      instruction is normally unprivileged.
    
      Trapping CPUID is possible on IvyBridge and later Intel CPUs - expose
      this hardware capability"
    
    * 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
      x86/syscalls/32: Ignore arch_prctl for other architectures
      um/arch_prctl: Fix fallout from x86 arch_prctl() rework
      x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
      x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support
      x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32
      x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common()
      x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl() to do_arch_prctl_64()
      x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl()
      x86/arch_prctl: Rename 'code' argument to 'option'
      x86/msr: Rename MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES to MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES
      x86/process: Optimize TIF_NOTSC switch
      x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch
      x86/process: Optimize TIF checks in __switch_to_xtra()
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