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Linus Torvalds 03de3e44a7 RISC-V updates for v6.19-rc3
- Add probing and userspace reporting support for the standard RISC-V
   ISA extensions Zilsd and Zclsd, which implement load/store dual
   instructions on RV32
 
 - Abstract the register saving code in setup_sigcontext() so it can be
   used for stateful RISC-V ISA extensions beyond the vector extension
 
 - Add the SBI extension ID and some initial data structure definitions
   for the RISC-V standard SBI debug trigger extension
 
 - Clean up some code slightly: change some page table functions to
   avoid atomic operations oinn !SMP and to avoid unnecessary casts to
   atomic_long_t; and use the existing RISCV_FULL_BARRIER macro in
   place of some open-coded "fence rw,rw" instructions
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Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:
 "Nothing exotic here; these are the cleanup and new ISA extension
  probing patches (not including CFI):

   - Add probing and userspace reporting support for the standard RISC-V
     ISA extensions Zilsd and Zclsd, which implement load/store dual
     instructions on RV32

   - Abstract the register saving code in setup_sigcontext() so it can
     be used for stateful RISC-V ISA extensions beyond the vector
     extension

   - Add the SBI extension ID and some initial data structure
     definitions for the RISC-V standard SBI debug trigger extension

   - Clean up some code slightly: change some page table functions to
     avoid atomic operations oinn !SMP and to avoid unnecessary casts to
     atomic_long_t; and use the existing RISCV_FULL_BARRIER macro in
     place of some open-coded 'fence rw,rw' instructions"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  riscv: Add SBI debug trigger extension and function ids
  riscv/atomic.h: use RISCV_FULL_BARRIER in _arch_atomic* function.
  riscv: hwprobe: export Zilsd and Zclsd ISA extensions
  riscv: add ISA extension parsing for Zilsd and Zclsd
  dt-bindings: riscv: add Zilsd and Zclsd extension descriptions
  riscv: mm: use xchg() on non-atomic_long_t variables, not atomic_long_xchg()
  riscv: mm: ptep_get_and_clear(): avoid atomic ops when !CONFIG_SMP
  riscv: mm: pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(): avoid atomic ops when !CONFIG_SMP
  riscv: signal: abstract header saving for setup_sigcontext
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============

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-----------

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-----------------------

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==================

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--------------------

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-------------------

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-----------------------------

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--------------------

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----------

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---------------

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-----------------------

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