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Linus Torvalds ccaaaf6fe5 MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support.
Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without support for
 MPX.  This means that there was only a relatively small window where
 folks could have ever used MPX.  It failed to gain wide adoption in the
 industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever support it widely.
 
 Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.
 
 This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge window.
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Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx

Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
arch MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
block SCSI misc on 20200129 2020-01-29 18:16:16 -08:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-01-28 15:38:56 -08:00
Documentation MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
drivers MTD core 2020-01-30 15:46:02 -08:00
fs MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
include MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
init Driver core changes for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-29 10:18:20 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel hmm related patches for 5.6 2020-01-29 19:56:50 -08:00
lib linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm hmm related patches for 5.6 2020-01-29 19:56:50 -08:00
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samples drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
scripts Devicetree updates for v5.6: 2020-01-30 07:47:58 -08:00
security linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
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tools drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
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.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-01-28 15:38:56 -08:00
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Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5 2020-01-26 16:23:03 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.