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LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12
The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel.
The LoongArch port also now sets the ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY and ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP kernel features, improves its hardware page table walker, and other changes. 1, Fix objtool about do_syscall() and Clang; 2, Enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support; 3, Enable ACPI BGRT handling; 4, Rework CPU feature probe from CPUCFG/IOCSR; 5, Add ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY support; 6, Add ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP support; 7, Improve hardware page table walker; 8, Simplify _percpu_read() and _percpu_write(); 9, Add advanced extended IRQ model [documentation]; 10, Some bug fixes and other small changes. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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