linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds a200dcb346 virtio: barrier rework+fixes
This adds a new kind of barrier, and reworks virtio and xen
 to use it.
 Plus some fixes here and there.
 
 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio barrier rework+fixes from Michael Tsirkin:
 "This adds a new kind of barrier, and reworks virtio and xen to use it.

  Plus some fixes here and there"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (44 commits)
  checkpatch: add virt barriers
  checkpatch: check for __smp outside barrier.h
  checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers
  virtio: make find_vqs() checkpatch.pl-friendly
  virtio_balloon: fix race between migration and ballooning
  virtio_balloon: fix race by fill and leak
  s390: more efficient smp barriers
  s390: use generic memory barriers
  xen/events: use virt_xxx barriers
  xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers
  xenbus: use virt_xxx barriers
  virtio_ring: use virt_store_mb
  sh: move xchg_cmpxchg to a header by itself
  sh: support 1 and 2 byte xchg
  virtio_ring: update weak barriers to use virt_xxx
  Revert "virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb"
  asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers
  x86: define __smp_xxx
  xtensa: define __smp_xxx
  tile: define __smp_xxx
  ...
2016-01-18 16:44:24 -08:00
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ABI Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog 2016-01-17 12:15:38 -08:00
accounting Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main() 2015-12-24 07:22:32 -07:00
acpi mfd: core: redo ACPI matching of the children devices 2015-10-26 15:25:53 +01:00
aoe
arm A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc 2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
arm64 arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata 2015-12-11 17:33:21 +00:00
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blockdev zram: update documentation 2015-09-24 15:39:42 -06:00
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cgroup-v1 cgroup: rename cgroup documentations 2016-01-11 23:14:51 -05:00
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connector
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cpuidle
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crypto KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
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device-mapper dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature 2015-12-10 10:39:03 -05:00
devicetree fbdev changes for 4.5 2016-01-18 11:58:31 -08:00
dmaengine Merge branch 'topic/async' into for-linus 2016-01-06 15:17:47 +05:30
DocBook Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-01-17 13:40:25 -08:00
driver-model driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules 2015-10-05 05:02:40 +01:00
dvb [media] use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:38:59 -02:00
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fault-injection net: Add support for CHANGEUPPER notifier error injection 2015-12-03 11:49:23 -05:00
fb Documentation/fb: add documentation for sm712fb 2015-08-07 15:05:01 -07:00
features mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
filesystems A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc 2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
firmware_class
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fpga usage documentation for FPGA manager core 2015-10-07 18:07:20 +01:00
frv
gpio Doc: gpio: Fix typos in Documentation/gpio 2015-11-20 16:51:16 -07:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (pmbus) Add client driver for LTC3815 2015-12-18 08:20:59 -08:00
i2c i2c: i801: add Intel Lewisburg device IDs 2015-11-20 16:22:21 +01:00
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iio iio: Documentation: Add IIO configfs documentation 2015-12-03 18:19:28 +00:00
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input Input: add userio module 2015-10-27 18:55:31 -07:00
ioctl Doc: ioctl: Fix typos in Documentation/ioctl 2015-11-20 16:52:50 -07:00
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kbuild kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
kdump
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laptops Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
leds Documentation: leds: Add description of brightness setting API 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 16:10:43 -08:00
m68k
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mic misc: mic: Update MIC host daemon with COSM changes 2015-10-04 12:54:54 +01:00
mips
misc-devices Doc:misc-devices: Fix typo in Documentation/misc-devices 2015-09-18 10:04:24 -06:00
mmc mmc: core: Remove MMC_CLKGATE 2015-10-26 16:00:09 +01:00
mn10300
mtd Documentation: mtd: improve nand_ecc.txt for readability and correctness 2015-11-17 17:05:14 -08:00
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networking A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc 2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
nfc NFC: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt 2015-06-08 23:15:45 +02:00
nios2
nvdimm libnvdimm: documentation clarifications 2015-11-12 09:55:23 -08:00
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: add nvmem api level and how-to doc 2015-08-05 13:43:45 -07:00
parisc
PCI The documentation tree update for 4.1. Numerous fixes, the overdue removal 2015-04-18 11:10:49 -04:00
pcmcia pcmcia: Fix typo in locking documentation 2015-08-07 14:34:58 +02:00
phy
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power Merge branches 'pm-pci' and 'pm-core' 2016-01-12 01:10:52 +01:00
powerpc SCSI misc on 20150901 2015-09-02 12:22:54 -07:00
pps Doc: pps: Fix file name in pps.txt 2015-07-14 12:35:42 -06:00
prctl Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling 2015-06-22 16:05:04 -06:00
pti
ptp testptp: Silence compiler warnings on ppc64 2015-09-29 21:16:56 -07:00
rapidio
RCU documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes 2015-12-05 12:34:32 -08:00
s390 s390/zcore: remove /sys/kernel/debug/zcore/mem 2015-11-27 09:24:12 +01:00
scheduler sched/dl/Documentation: Split Section 3 2015-05-19 08:39:21 +02:00
scsi st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs 2015-11-09 17:17:27 -08:00
security keys, trusted: seal with a TPM2 authorization policy 2015-12-20 15:27:13 +02:00
serial Documentation: improve line discipline method descriptions 2015-10-05 04:53:26 +01:00
sh
sound ASoC: img: Add documentation for SPDIF in controls 2015-11-16 10:06:58 +00:00
spi spi: tools: move spidev_test metadata 2015-11-30 12:14:12 +00:00
sysctl Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-15 11:41:44 -08:00
target target: use per-attribute show and store methods 2015-10-13 22:17:49 -07:00
thermal thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit 2016-01-14 13:29:08 -07:00
timers
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trace x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses 2015-12-06 12:56:10 +01:00
usb The chipidea changes for v4.5-rc1 2015-12-26 16:59:14 -08:00
vDSO Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling 2015-06-22 16:04:57 -06:00
video4linux [media] media framework: rename pads init function to media_entity_pads_init() 2016-01-11 12:19:03 -02:00
virtual KVM: s390: fix mismatch between user and in-kernel guest limit 2015-12-15 17:08:21 +01:00
vm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-17 12:58:52 -08:00
w1 w1: masters: omap_hdq: add support for 1-wire mode 2015-10-05 04:47:09 +01:00
watchdog watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device 2016-01-11 21:53:59 +01:00
wimax
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xtensa
zh_CN [media] media framework: rename pads init function to media_entity_pads_init() 2016-01-11 12:19:03 -02:00
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adding-syscalls.txt Documentation: describe how to add a system call 2015-08-13 17:54:06 -06:00
applying-patches.txt
assoc_array.txt
atomic_ops.txt locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-09-13 10:35:46 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
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cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup: rename cgroup documentations 2016-01-11 23:14:51 -05:00
Changes There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt clk: change clk_ops' ->determine_rate() prototype 2015-07-27 18:12:01 -07:00
coccinelle.txt
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CodingStyle Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle 2016-01-11 18:18:16 -07:00
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cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt Documentation: Update cputopology.txt 2015-05-27 15:22:15 +02:00
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debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
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DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same 2015-09-24 15:50:06 -06:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt 2016-01-11 18:29:00 -07:00
DMA-attributes.txt
dma-buf-sharing.txt dma-buf: cleanup dma_buf_export() to make it easily extensible 2015-04-21 14:47:16 +05:30
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dontdiff Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff 2015-11-11 10:08:07 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt EDAC: Remove references to bluesmoke.sourceforge.net 2015-11-26 14:46:06 +01:00
efi-stub.txt
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email-clients.txt A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link 2015-12-10 11:19:35 -07:00
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hw_random.txt hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng 2015-09-21 22:00:41 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt hwspinlock/core: add device tree support 2015-05-02 09:54:30 +03:00
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Intel-IOMMU.txt x86/vt-d: Fix documentation of DRHD 2015-08-25 10:44:49 +02:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi watchdog : add panic_wdt_timeout parameter 2015-11-16 06:28:43 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Documentation updates 2015-10-13 19:01:25 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kasan.txt mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
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kmemleak.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
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kselftest.txt Documentation: Update kselftest.txt 2015-09-24 15:51:53 -06:00
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lockup-watchdogs.txt kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
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Makefile spi: Move spi code from Documentation to tools 2015-11-23 14:54:01 +00:00
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md-cluster.txt md-cluster: update the documentation 2016-01-06 11:39:06 +11:00
md.txt doc:md: fix typo in md.txt. 2015-06-23 06:49:44 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt virtio: barrier rework+fixes 2016-01-18 16:44:24 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt Documentation: Minor changes to men-chameleon-bus.txt 2015-07-24 15:15:17 +02:00
module-signing.txt Move certificate handling to its own directory 2015-08-14 16:06:13 +01:00
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percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt phy: core: Add devm_of_phy_get_by_index to phy-core 2015-05-11 21:42:23 +05:30
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: move strict option to pinmux_ops 2015-05-06 14:45:19 +02:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt x86/fpu: Rename math_state_restore() to fpu__restore() 2015-05-19 15:47:18 +02:00
printk-formats.txt printk-formats.txt: remove unimplemented %pT 2016-01-16 11:17:30 -08:00
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rbtree.txt documentation: fix small typo in rbtree.txt 2015-09-13 14:38:50 -06:00
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static-keys.txt locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation 2015-09-15 07:12:06 +02:00
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vfio.txt vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support Dynamic DMA windows 2015-06-11 15:16:55 +10:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt Documentation: mention vme_master_mmap() in VME API 2015-06-12 17:26:56 -07:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt workqueue: fix trivial typo in Documentation/workqueue.txt 2015-05-05 09:50:38 -04:00
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