linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds fd7e9a8834 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over
200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.
 
 * ARM:
 - GICv3 save/restore
 - cache flushing fixes
 - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
 - physical timer emulation
 
 * MIPS:
 - various improvements under the hood
 - support for SMP guests
 - a large rewrite of MMU emulation.  KVM MIPS can now use MMU notifiers
 to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking, swapping, ballooning
 and everything else.  KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is also supported, so that
 writes to some memory regions can be treated as MMIO.  The new MMU also
 paves the way for hardware virtualization support.
 
 * PPC:
 - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
 - resizable hashed page table
 - bugfixes.
 
 * s390: expose more features to the guest
 - more SIMD extensions
 - instruction execution protection
 - ESOP2
 
 * x86:
 - improved hashing in the MMU
 - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
 - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
 migration support of nested hypervisors
 - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
 - host-to-guest PTP support
 - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown in
 and some duct tape removed.
 - remove lazy FPU handling
 - optimizations of user-mode exits
 - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests
 
 * generic:
 - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on tsk->sighand->siglock
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
  over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.

  ARM:
   - GICv3 save/restore
   - cache flushing fixes
   - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
   - physical timer emulation

  MIPS:
   - various improvements under the hood
   - support for SMP guests
   - a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
     notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
     swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
     also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
     treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
     virtualization support.

  PPC:
   - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
   - resizable hashed page table
   - bugfixes.

  s390:
   - expose more features to the guest
   - more SIMD extensions
   - instruction execution protection
   - ESOP2

  x86:
   - improved hashing in the MMU
   - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
   - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
     migration support of nested hypervisors
   - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
   - host-to-guest PTP support
   - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
     in and some duct tape removed.
   - remove lazy FPU handling
   - optimizations of user-mode exits
   - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests

  generic:
   - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
     tsk->sighand->siglock"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
  x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
  x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
  KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
  x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
  x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
  x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
  x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
  x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
  x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
  kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
  KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
  KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
  KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
  KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache
  KVM: use separate generations for each address space
  ...
2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
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ABI staging/iio driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 12:14:01 -08:00
accounting
acpi ACPI / button: Remove lid_init_state=method mode 2017-01-31 17:20:45 +01:00
admin-guide TTY/Serial driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 12:17:25 -08:00
aoe
arm ARM: SoC platform updates for v4.10 2016-12-15 15:39:02 -08:00
arm64 arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003 2017-02-10 11:22:12 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation 2016-10-10 07:12:02 -06:00
block block: fix up io_poll documentation 2017-01-03 16:47:13 -07:00
blockdev docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
bus-devices
cdrom cdrom: Make device operations read-only 2017-02-14 08:29:56 -07:00
cgroup-v1 docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
cma
connector
console
core-api core-api: remove an unexpected unident 2016-12-01 10:46:01 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: intel_pstate: Operation mode control from sysfs 2017-02-04 00:05:31 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto This pull contains one set of changes: a conversion of the crypto DocBook 2016-12-17 16:00:34 -08:00
dev-tools Documentation/sparse: drop __CHECK_ENDIAN__ 2016-12-16 00:13:41 +02:00
device-mapper dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature 2017-02-16 13:12:47 -05:00
devicetree TTY/Serial driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 12:17:25 -08:00
dmaengine dmaengine: Documentation: Fix typo in pxa_dma.txt 2016-11-14 08:14:24 +05:30
doc-guide docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation 2016-11-30 17:08:09 -07:00
DocBook char/misc driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:38:22 -08:00
driver-api driver core patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:44:32 -08:00
driver-model irqdesc: Add a resource managed version of irq_alloc_descs() 2017-02-10 14:39:20 +01:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon extcon: int3496: Add Intel INT3496 ACPI device extcon driver 2017-01-09 10:04:11 +09:00
fault-injection
fb
features 2nd round of ARC udpates for 4.10rc1 2016-12-23 10:22:47 -08:00
filesystems rxrpc: Change module filename to rxrpc.ko 2017-02-17 15:09:19 -05:00
firmware_class firmware: revamp firmware documentation 2017-01-11 09:42:59 +01:00
fmc
fpga fpga: Add scatterlist based programming 2017-02-10 15:20:44 +01:00
frv docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
gpio pinctrl / gpio: Introduce .set_config() callback for GPIO chips 2017-01-26 15:27:37 +01:00
gpu Main pull request for drm for 4.10 kernel 2016-12-13 09:35:09 -08:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: Update documentation to clarify rules for the 'name' attribute 2017-01-25 06:14:36 -08:00
i2c Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2016-12-15 12:56:35 -08:00
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input
ioctl
isdn docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
kbuild Kconfig: Introduce the "imply" keyword 2016-11-16 09:26:33 +01:00
kdump
laptops platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support for X1 Yoga (2016) Tablet Mode 2016-12-13 09:29:06 -08:00
leds leds: class: Add new optional brightness_hw_changed attribute 2017-01-29 19:59:42 +01:00
livepatch livepatch: doc: remove the limitation for schedule() patching 2017-01-11 02:33:39 +01:00
locking locking/ww_mutex/Documentation: Update the design document 2017-01-14 11:14:55 +01:00
m68k docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
media media updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-21 16:58:32 -08:00
memory-devices
metag
mic
mips
misc-devices
mmc
mn10300
mtd spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller 2017-01-03 17:33:36 +00:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking GTP: Add some basic documentation about drivers/net/gtp.c 2017-02-20 10:24:20 -05:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem
parisc
PCI PCI changes for the v4.9 merge window: 2016-10-07 11:46:37 -07:00
pcmcia
perf perf: add qcom l2 cache perf events driver 2017-02-08 19:32:24 +00:00
phy
platform
power Merge branch 'pm-sleep' 2017-02-20 14:26:13 +01:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 4.9 2016-10-07 20:19:31 -07:00
pps
prctl
process Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" 2016-12-01 10:44:08 -07:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
RCU Merge branches 'doc.2017.01.15b', 'dyntick.2017.01.23a', 'fixes.2017.01.23a', 'srcu.2017.01.25a' and 'torture.2017.01.15b' into HEAD 2017-01-25 12:56:05 -08:00
s390
scheduler sched/Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix incorrect example 2017-01-22 10:34:17 +01:00
scsi Merge branch 'misc' into for-linus 2016-12-22 12:32:33 -08:00
security This renames the (now inaccurate) CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and related config 2017-02-21 17:56:45 -08:00
serial
sh
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'sound/topic/restize-docs' into sound 2016-11-18 16:19:28 -07:00
sphinx docs: sphinx-extensions: make rstFlatTable work with docutils 0.13 2016-12-18 13:30:29 -07:00
sphinx-static This is the documentation update pull for the 4.9 merge window. 2016-10-04 13:54:07 -07:00
spi spi: spi-ep93xx: simplify GPIO chip selects 2017-02-16 20:10:26 +00:00
sysctl bpf: make jited programs visible in traces 2017-02-17 13:40:05 -05:00
target
thermal
timers time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS 2017-02-10 11:15:08 +01:00
trace This release has a few updates: 2016-12-15 13:49:34 -08:00
translations Documentation/sparse: drop __CHECK_ENDIAN__ 2016-12-16 00:13:41 +02:00
usb usb: gadget: uac2: add req_number as parameter 2017-01-24 11:04:21 +02:00
virtual KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals 2017-02-17 12:27:37 +01:00
vm mm: add documentation for page fragment APIs 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
w1
watchdog docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
wimax
x86 efi: Get and store the secure boot status 2017-02-07 10:42:10 +01:00
xtensa
.gitignore
00-INDEX edac: adjust docs location at MAINTAINERS and 00-INDEX 2016-12-15 08:57:16 -02:00
bcache.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt
Changes docs: add back 'Documentation/Changes' file (as symlink) 2016-12-14 16:30:12 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() 2016-11-16 16:17:45 -07:00
clk.txt
CodingStyle doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
conf.py docs-rst: doc-guide: split the kernel-documentation.rst contents 2016-11-19 10:22:04 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix typos 2016-10-25 17:07:52 -06:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED attribute 2017-01-19 15:56:19 +00:00
dma-buf-sharing.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff Remove last traces of ikconfig.h 2016-12-14 10:54:28 +01:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst crypto: doc - convert crypto API documentation to Sphinx 2016-12-13 16:37:54 -07:00
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi: Update documentation 2016-11-07 12:16:06 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docs-rst: doc-guide: split the kernel-documentation.rst contents 2016-11-19 10:22:04 -07:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
kselftest.txt Doc: update kselftest.txt with details on how to run tests after install 2016-11-07 18:04:18 -07:00
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation 2016-10-10 07:12:02 -06:00
Makefile.sphinx docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target 2016-11-30 17:08:03 -07:00
md-cluster.txt
memory-barriers.txt doc: Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt 2017-01-14 21:29:15 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: core: Fix regression caused by delayed work for hogs 2017-01-13 16:25:17 +01:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt siphash: implement HalfSipHash1-3 for hash tables 2017-01-09 13:58:57 -05:00
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
static-keys.txt
SubmittingPatches doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
svga.txt
sync_file.txt dma-buf: Rename struct fence to dma_fence 2016-10-25 14:40:39 +02:00
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator 2016-12-27 13:08:42 -07:00
unshare.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt vfio-mdev: Make mdev_parent private 2016-12-30 08:13:41 -07:00
vfio.txt
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt