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    Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · 7ae77150
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
    
     - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
       accelerator on Power9.
    
     - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
       make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
       relying on an IPI for serialisation.
    
     - A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
       more robust.
    
     - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
       on Power10.
    
     - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
    
     - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
       driver.
    
     - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
    
     - Initial support for booting on Power10.
    
     - Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
    
    Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
    Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, ...
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