Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
"This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part o

Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
"This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
part of this feature, and just for userspace.

The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.6 merge window.

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_a

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_avail_list")

- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

- Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
of mas_store()").

- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

- Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

- xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

- Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

- David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

- Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
UFFD").

- Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
check").

- Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

- Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

- Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

- Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

- More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
folio").

- page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

- Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

- Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

- Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

- Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
upgrade").

- Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
for arm64").

- Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

- Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

- Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
optimization for ppc64").

- page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

- Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
cleanups").

- kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

- VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

- DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

- Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

- Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

- ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
("cleanup with helper macro K()").

- Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

- pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
migratetype").

- Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
"struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

- memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
for vm.memfd_noexec").

- MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

- THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
output").

- kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

- More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
and _folio_order").

- A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

- pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
range API").

- A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

- Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").

- Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
mm: remove enum page_entry_size
mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
mm: remove checks for pte_index
memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
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mips: implement the new page table range API

Rename _PFN_SHIFT to PFN_PTE_SHIFT. Convert a few places
to call set_pte() instead of set_pte_at(). Add set_ptes(),
update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_ica

mips: implement the new page table range API

Rename _PFN_SHIFT to PFN_PTE_SHIFT. Convert a few places
to call set_pte() instead of set_pte_at(). Add set_ptes(),
update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_icache_pages() and flush_dcache_folio().
Change the PG_arch_1 (aka PG_dcache_dirty) flag from being per-page
to per-folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-18-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.4' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in updates to shared infrastructure.

mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()

The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow
stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which req

mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()

The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow
stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires
some core mm changes to function properly.

One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable,
but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE
bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code
will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that
call pte_mkwrite(). The goal is to make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so
that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular
writable or shadow stack mappings.

But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of
each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some
are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some
pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA.

So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be
renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite()
added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can
be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers
can be changed to take/pass a VMA.

Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and
adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same
pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(),
create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if
pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the
compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma().

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZjSu7c9sFYZb3q04108stgHff2wfbokGCCgW7riz+8Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-2-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com

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Merge branch 'for-6.5/apple' into for-linus

- improved support for Keychron K8 keyboard (Lasse Brun)

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging to sync drm-misc-next-fixes with drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patche

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patches depend on these helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.4-rc4' into wpan-next/staging

Linux 6.4-rc4

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to get some hwmon dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Let's bring 6.4-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to start the new fix cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Start the 6.5 release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.4 merge window.

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peforma

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.

- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.

- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).

- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.

- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.

- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.

- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.

- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
flushing.

- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.

- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.

- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.

- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.

- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
accounting.

- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.

- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.

- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
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Merge branch 'for-6.4/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- assorted functional fixes for amd-sfh driver (Basavaraj Natikar)

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to merge following patch to drm-intel-gt-next:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/530942/?series=114925&rev=6

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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mm: add PTE pointer parameter to flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault()

s390 can do more fine-grained handling of spurious TLB protection faults,
when there also is the PTE pointer available.

Therefore, pa

mm: add PTE pointer parameter to flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault()

s390 can do more fine-grained handling of spurious TLB protection faults,
when there also is the PTE pointer available.

Therefore, pass on the PTE pointer to flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() as an
additional parameter.

This will add no functional change to other architectures, but those with
private flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() implementations need to be made
aware of the new parameter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230306161548.661740-1-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up with 6.3-rc cycle...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <ro

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.3-rc2' into next

Merge with mainline to get of_property_present() and other newer APIs.

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.3-rc1 and sync with the other DRM trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>