[GIT PULL] x86/boot changes for v7.0

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86/boot Git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-boot-2026-02-09

for you to fetch changes up to 2a11e1479ef07519bfd6b64ee276905ca84cf817:

x86/boot changes for v7.0:

 - x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console
   (Shenghao Yang)

 - x86/acpi/boot: Correct the acpi_is_processor_usable() check again
   (Yazen Ghannam)

 - Refresh the x86 memory map (e820 table) handling code, and
   make the printouts a bit more informative. (Ingo Molnar)

 Thanks,

	Ingo

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Ingo Molnar (28):
      x86/boot/e820: Remove inverted boolean logic from the e820_nomerge() function name, rename it to e820_type_mergeable()
      x86/boot/e820: Simplify e820__print_table() a bit
      x86/boot/e820: Simplify the PPro Erratum #50 workaround
      x86/boot/e820: Mark e820__print_table() static
      x86/boot/e820: Print gaps in the E820 table
      x86/boot/e820: Make the field separator space character part of e820_print_type()
      x86/boot/e820: Print E820_TYPE_RAM entries as ... RAM entries
      x86/boot/e820: Call the PCI gap a 'gap' in the boot log printout
      x86/boot/e820: Use 'u64' consistently instead of 'unsigned long long'
      x86/boot/e820: Remove pointless early_panic() indirection
      x86/boot/e820: Clean up confusing and self-contradictory verbiage around E820 related resource allocations
      x86/boot/e820: Improve e820_print_type() messages
      x86/boot/e820: Clean up __e820__range_add() a bit
      x86/boot/e820: Clean up __refdata use a bit
      x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary header inclusions
      x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable names under 'idx'
      x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable types under 'u32'
      x86/boot/e820: Change struct e820_table::nr_entries type from __u32 to u32
      x86/boot/e820: Clean up e820__setup_pci_gap()/e820_search_gap() a bit
      x86/boot/e820: Change e820_search_gap() to search for the highest-address PCI gap
      x86/boot/e820: Rename gap_start/gap_size to max_gap_start/max_gap_start in e820_search_gap() et al
      x86/boot/e820: Simplify & clarify __e820__range_add() a bit
      x86/boot/e820: Standardize __init/__initdata tag placement
      x86/boot/e820: Simplify append_e820_table() and remove restriction on single-entry tables
      x86/boot/e820: Remove e820__range_remove()'s unused return parameter
      x86/boot/e820: Simplify the e820__range_remove() API
      x86/boot/e820: Make sure e820_search_gap() finds all gaps
      x86/boot/e820: Use <linux/sizes.h> symbols for literals

Shenghao Yang (1):
      x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console

Yazen Ghannam (1):
      x86/acpi/boot: Correct acpi_is_processor_usable() check again


 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h                 |   3 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h               |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c                     |  23 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c                  |  15 -
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c                          | 479 +++++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c                         |  10 +-
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c                     |   3 +-
 8 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)