Linux 7.0 adds support for ARM's 64-byte single-copy atomic instructions (LS64/LS64V) from Armv8.7, enabling userspace drivers to directly fill workqueue entries into hardware. The kernel also includes Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) optimizations that reduce tag checking overhead, improving performance by 2% for futex

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