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Linus Torvalds 15303ba5d1 KVM changes for 4.16
ARM:
 - Include icache invalidation optimizations, improving VM startup time
 
 - Support for forwarded level-triggered interrupts, improving
   performance for timers and passthrough platform devices
 
 - A small fix for power-management notifiers, and some cosmetic changes
 
 PPC:
 - Add MMIO emulation for vector loads and stores
 
 - Allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without
   requiring the complex thread synchronization of older CPU versions
 
 - Improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE interrupt
   controller
 
 - Support decrement register migration
 
 - Various cleanups and bugfixes.
 
 s390:
 - Cornelia Huck passed maintainership to Janosch Frank
 
 - Exitless interrupts for emulated devices
 
 - Cleanup of cpuflag handling
 
 - kvm_stat counter improvements
 
 - VSIE improvements
 
 - mm cleanup
 
 x86:
 - Hypervisor part of SEV
 
 - UMIP, RDPID, and MSR_SMI_COUNT emulation
 
 - Paravirtualized TLB shootdown using the new KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED bit
 
 - Allow guests to see TOPOEXT, GFNI, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, and more AVX512
   features
 
 - Show vcpu id in its anonymous inode name
 
 - Many fixes and cleanups
 
 - Per-VCPU MSR bitmaps (already merged through x86/pti branch)
 
 - Stable KVM clock when nesting on Hyper-V (merged through x86/hyperv)
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Merge tag 'kvm-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:

   - icache invalidation optimizations, improving VM startup time

   - support for forwarded level-triggered interrupts, improving
     performance for timers and passthrough platform devices

   - a small fix for power-management notifiers, and some cosmetic
     changes

  PPC:

   - add MMIO emulation for vector loads and stores

   - allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without
     requiring the complex thread synchronization of older CPU versions

   - improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE
     interrupt controller

   - support decrement register migration

   - various cleanups and bugfixes.

  s390:

   - Cornelia Huck passed maintainership to Janosch Frank

   - exitless interrupts for emulated devices

   - cleanup of cpuflag handling

   - kvm_stat counter improvements

   - VSIE improvements

   - mm cleanup

  x86:

   - hypervisor part of SEV

   - UMIP, RDPID, and MSR_SMI_COUNT emulation

   - paravirtualized TLB shootdown using the new KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED bit

   - allow guests to see TOPOEXT, GFNI, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, and more
     AVX512 features

   - show vcpu id in its anonymous inode name

   - many fixes and cleanups

   - per-VCPU MSR bitmaps (already merged through x86/pti branch)

   - stable KVM clock when nesting on Hyper-V (merged through
     x86/hyperv)"

* tag 'kvm-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (197 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add MMIO emulation for VMX instructions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Branch inside feature section
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HPT resizing work on POWER9
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of secondary HPTEG in HPT resizing code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix broken select due to misspelling
  KVM: x86: don't forget vcpu_put() in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix svcpu copying with preemption enabled
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Drop locks before reading guest memory
  kvm: x86: remove efer_reload entry in kvm_vcpu_stat
  KVM: x86: AMD Processor Topology Information
  x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length for fast MMIO when running nested
  kvm: embed vcpu id to dentry of vcpu anon inode
  kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible)
  x86/kvm: Make it compile on 32bit and with HYPYERVISOR_GUEST=n
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fixup userspace irqchip static key optimization
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix userspace_irqchip_in_use counting
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM/s390 maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: add Halil as additional vfio-ccw maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add David as a reviewer for KVM/s390
  ...
2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
arch KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
block for-linus-20180204 2018-02-04 11:16:35 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-01-31 14:22:45 -08:00
Documentation KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
drivers KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-02-09 19:22:17 -08:00
include KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: have RT tasks queue in by priority in wq_add() 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
kernel KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-02-06 22:15:42 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-02-09 15:34:18 -08:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security iversion.h related cleanup for v4.16 2018-02-07 14:25:22 -08:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.16 2018-02-07 12:11:09 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-02-09 15:34:18 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore scripts/package: snap-pkg target 2017-12-13 00:00:18 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
README

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.