Commit 146c3d32 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A few fixes for x86:

   - Fix a boot regression caused by the recent bootparam sanitizing
     change, which escaped the attention of all people who reviewed that
     code.

   - Address a boot problem on machines with broken E820 tables caused
     by an underflow which ended up placing the trampoline start at
     physical address 0.

   - Handle machines which do not advertise a legacy timer of any form,
     but need calibration of the local APIC timer gracefully by making
     the calibration routine independent from the tick interrupt. Marked
     for stable as well as there seems to be quite some new laptops
     rolled out which expose this.

   - Clear the RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h and 16h CPUs which are
     affected by broken firmware which does not initialize RDRAND
     correctly after resume. Add a command line parameter to override
     this for mach...
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