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LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0


The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing. With Linux 7.0 the LoongArch architecture now has SMT hot-plug support, 128-bit atomic CMPXCHNG compare and exchange support, the MEMFD_SECRET system call is now supported, and various other updates: - Select HAVE_CMPXCHG_{LOCAL,DOUBLE} - Add 128-bit atomic cmpxchg support - Add HOTPLUG_SMT implementation - Wire up memfd_secret system call - Fix boot errors and unwind errors for KASAN - Use BPF prog pack allocator and add BPF arena support - Update dts files to add nand controllers - Some bug fixes and other small changes The LoongArch improvements landed via this merge.

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