stable/for-linus-3.6-rc0-tag
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23 Jul 15:00
* Performance improvement to lower the amount of traps the hypervisor has to do 32-bit guests. Mainly for setting PTE entries and updating TLS descriptors. * MCE polling driver to collect hypervisor MCE buffer and present them to /dev/mcelog. * Physical CPU online/offline support. When an privileged guest is booted it is present with virtual CPUs, which might have an 1:1 to physical CPUs but usually don't. This provides mechanism to offline/online physical CPUs. Bug-fixes for: * Coverity found fixes in the console and ACPI processor driver. * PVonHVM kexec fixes along with some cleanups. * Pages that fall within E820 gaps and non-RAM regions (and had been released to hypervisor) would be populated back, but potentially in non-RAM regions.