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Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit

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This is a reworked version of my older fsgsbase patchkit.
Main changes:
- Ported to new entry/* code, which simplified it somewhat
- Now has a test program
- Fixed ptrace/core dump support
- Better documentation
- Some minor fixes improvement

This adds kernel support for some Intel instructions that
allow fast access to the FS and GS 64bit base. They need
some changes to entry_64.S because they allow user
to fully control the GS base.

Advantages:
- NMIs (and other "paranoid" interrupts) avoid
one RDMSR which makes them faster
- User space can use these instructions, mainly
for efficient context switching with user thread libraries
- Context switches do not need to use MSR writes
anymore to context switch FS/GS base >4GB. This
will speed up applications that have enough thread
local data that it won't fit below 4GB.
- User space can use GS efficiently as an additional
global pointer register

I also included one minor (unrelated) optimization to
disable an unneeded old SWAPGS workaround.

-Andi

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Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-21 17:20 +0100
  Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-21 20:30 +0100
    Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-21 20:50 +0100
      Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-21 23:10 +0100
        Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-21 23:20 +0100
          Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-21 23:30 +0100
            Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-21 23:50 +0100
              Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-21 23:50 +0100
                Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-22 00:00 +0100
                Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-22 00:10 +0100
                Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-22 00:00 +0100
  Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-03-21 20:30 +0100
  Re: Updated version of RD/WR FS/GS BASE patchkit Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-21 20:50 +0100

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