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    Merge branch 'akpm' (second patchbomb from Andrew Morton) · 8065be8d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:
     "Two new syscalls:
    
         memfd_create in "shm: add memfd_create() syscall"
         kexec_file_load in "kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load"
    
      And:
    
       - Most (all?) of the rest of MM
    
       - Lots of the usual misc bits
    
       - fs/autofs4
    
       - drivers/rtc
    
       - fs/nilfs
    
       - procfs
    
       - fork.c, exec.c
    
       - more in lib/
    
       - rapidio
    
       - Janitorial work in filesystems: fs/ufs, fs/reiserfs, fs/adfs,
         fs/cramfs, fs/romfs, fs/qnx6.
    
       - initrd/initramfs work
    
       - "file sealing" and the memfd_create() syscall, in tmpfs
    
       - add pci_zalloc_consistent, use it in lots of places
    
       - MAINTAINERS maintenance
    
       - kexec feature work"
    
    * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org: (193 commits)
      MAINTAINERS: update nomadik patterns
      MAINTAINERS: update usb/gadget patterns
      MAINTAINERS: update DMA BUFFER SHARING patterns
      kexec: verify the signature of signed PE bzImage
      kexec: support kexec/kdump on EFI systems
      kexec: support for kexec on panic using new system call
      kexec-bzImage64: support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry
      kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time
      purgatory: core purgatory functionality
      purgatory/sha256: provide implementation of sha256 in purgaotory context
      kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load
      kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration
      kexec: make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union
      resource: provide new functions to walk through resources
      kexec: use common function for kimage_normal_alloc() and kimage_crash_alloc()
      kexec: move segment verification code in a separate function
      kexec: rename unusebale_pages to unusable_pages
      kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
      bin2c: move bin2c in scripts/basic
      shm: wait for pins to be released when sealing
      ...
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