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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-14 11:09:39 -0700
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "The most interesting parts are probably the mm changes from Ryan which optimise the creation of the linear mapping at boot and (separately) implement write-protect support for userfaultfd. Outside of our usual directories, the Kbuild-related changes under scripts/ have been acked by Masahiro whilst the drivers/acpi/ parts have been acked by Rafael and the addition of cpumask_any_and_but() has been acked by Yury. ACPI: - Support for the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) signature feature which is used to reboot out of hibernation on some systems Kbuild: - Support for building Flat Image Tree (FIT) images, where the kernel Image is compressed alongside a set of devicetree blobs Memory management: - Optimisation of our early page-table manipulation for creation of the linear mapping - Support for userfaultfd write protection, which brings along some nice cleanups to our handling of invalid but present ptes - Extend our use of range TLBI invalidation at EL1 Perf and PMUs: - Ensure that the 'pmu->parent' pointer is correctly initialised by PMU drivers - Avoid allocating 'cpumask_t' types on the stack in some PMU drivers - Fix parsing of the CPU PMU "version" field in assembly code, as it doesn't follow the usual architectural rules - Add best-effort unwinding support for USER_STACKTRACE - Minor driver fixes and cleanups Selftests: - Minor cleanups to the arm64 selftests (missing NULL check, unused variable) Miscellaneous: - Add a command-line alias for disabling 32-bit application support - Add part number for Neoverse-V2 CPUs - Minor fixes and cleanups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (64 commits) arm64/mm: Fix pud_user_accessible_page() for PGTABLE_LEVELS <= 2 arm64/mm: Add uffd write-protect support arm64/mm: Move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG arm64/mm: Remove PTE_PROT_NONE bit arm64/mm: generalize PMD_PRESENT_INVALID for all levels arm64: simplify arch_static_branch/_jump function arm64: Add USER_STACKTRACE support arm64: Add the arm64.no32bit_el0 command line option drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Actually use devm_add_action_or_reset() drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group drivers/perf: hisi_pcie: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group kselftest: arm64: Add a null pointer check arm64: defer clearing DAIF.D arm64: assembler: update stale comment for disable_step_tsk arm64/sysreg: Update PIE permission encodings kselftest/arm64: Remove unused parameters in abi test perf/arm-spe: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-smmuv3: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-dsu: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-dmc620: Assign parents for event_source device ...
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@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 2.4.4 sphinx-build --version
cpio any cpio --version
GNU tar 1.28 tar --version
gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version
+mkimage (optional) 2017.01 mkimage --version
====================== =============== ========================================
.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
@@ -189,6 +190,14 @@ The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate
tag files through ``make gtags``. This is due to its use of the gtags
``-C (--directory)`` flag.
+mkimage
+-------
+
+This tool is used when building a Flat Image Tree (FIT), commonly used on ARM
+platforms. The tool is available via the ``u-boot-tools`` package or can be
+built from the U-Boot source code. See the instructions at
+https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/build/tools.html#building-tools-for-linux
+
System utilities
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