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Linus Torvalds 04759194dc arm64 updates for 4.14:
- VMAP_STACK support, allowing the kernel stacks to be allocated in
   the vmalloc space with a guard page for trapping stack overflows. One
   of the patches introduces THREAD_ALIGN and changes the generic
   alloc_thread_stack_node() to use this instead of THREAD_SIZE (no
   functional change for other architectures)
 
 - Contiguous PTE hugetlb support re-enabled (after being reverted a
   couple of times). We now have the semantics agreed in the generic mm
   layer together with API improvements so that the architecture code can
   detect between contiguous and non-contiguous huge PTEs
 
 - Initial support for persistent memory on ARM: DC CVAP instruction
   exposed to user space (HWCAP) and the in-kernel pmem API implemented
 
 - raid6 improvements for arm64: faster algorithm for the delta syndrome
   and implementation of the recovery routines using Neon
 
 - FP/SIMD refactoring and removal of support for Neon in interrupt
   context. This is in preparation for full SVE support
 
 - PTE accessors converted from inline asm to cmpxchg so that we can
   use LSE atomics if available (ARMv8.1)
 
 - Perf support for Cortex-A35 and A73
 
 - Non-urgent fixes and cleanups
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - VMAP_STACK support, allowing the kernel stacks to be allocated in the
   vmalloc space with a guard page for trapping stack overflows. One of
   the patches introduces THREAD_ALIGN and changes the generic
   alloc_thread_stack_node() to use this instead of THREAD_SIZE (no
   functional change for other architectures)

 - Contiguous PTE hugetlb support re-enabled (after being reverted a
   couple of times). We now have the semantics agreed in the generic mm
   layer together with API improvements so that the architecture code
   can detect between contiguous and non-contiguous huge PTEs

 - Initial support for persistent memory on ARM: DC CVAP instruction
   exposed to user space (HWCAP) and the in-kernel pmem API implemented

 - raid6 improvements for arm64: faster algorithm for the delta syndrome
   and implementation of the recovery routines using Neon

 - FP/SIMD refactoring and removal of support for Neon in interrupt
   context. This is in preparation for full SVE support

 - PTE accessors converted from inline asm to cmpxchg so that we can use
   LSE atomics if available (ARMv8.1)

 - Perf support for Cortex-A35 and A73

 - Non-urgent fixes and cleanups

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (75 commits)
  arm64: cleanup {COMPAT_,}SET_PERSONALITY() macro
  arm64: introduce separated bits for mm_context_t flags
  arm64: hugetlb: Cleanup setup_hugepagesz
  arm64: Re-enable support for contiguous hugepages
  arm64: hugetlb: Override set_huge_swap_pte_at() to support contiguous hugepages
  arm64: hugetlb: Override huge_pte_clear() to support contiguous hugepages
  arm64: hugetlb: Handle swap entries in huge_pte_offset() for contiguous hugepages
  arm64: hugetlb: Add break-before-make logic for contiguous entries
  arm64: hugetlb: Spring clean huge pte accessors
  arm64: hugetlb: Introduce pte_pgprot helper
  arm64: hugetlb: set_huge_pte_at Add WARN_ON on !pte_present
  arm64: kexec: have own crash_smp_send_stop() for crash dump for nonpanic cores
  arm64: dma-mapping: Mark atomic_pool as __ro_after_init
  arm64: dma-mapping: Do not pass data to gen_pool_set_algo()
  arm64: Remove the !CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM alternative code paths
  arm64: Ignore hardware dirty bit updates in ptep_set_wrprotect()
  arm64: Move PTE_RDONLY bit handling out of set_pte_at()
  kvm: arm64: Convert kvm_set_s2pte_readonly() from inline asm to cmpxchg()
  arm64: Convert pte handling from inline asm to using (cmp)xchg
  arm64: neon/efi: Make EFI fpsimd save/restore variables static
  ...
2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
arch arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
block Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to fix up conflicts 2017-09-04 11:01:18 +02:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages 2017-08-22 14:45:48 +08:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
drivers arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
include arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
init Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 12:21:28 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-08-21 09:45:19 +02:00
kernel arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
lib arm64 updates for 4.14: 2017-09-05 09:53:37 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 12:21:28 -07:00
net Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 09:52:57 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-05 09:37:11 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-05 09:37:11 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 13:56:37 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2017-09-03 21:07:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.