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Linus Torvalds 5289851171 arm64 updates for 4.20:
- Core mmu_gather changes which allow tracking the levels of page-table
   being cleared together with the arm64 low-level flushing routines
 
 - Support for the new ARMv8.5 PSTATE.SSBS bit which can be used to
   mitigate Spectre-v4 dynamically without trapping to EL3 firmware
 
 - Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in compat_sys_sigaltstack
 
 - Optimise emulation of MRS instructions to ID_* registers on ARMv8.4
 
 - Support for Common Not Private (CnP) translations allowing threads of
   the same CPU to share the TLB entries
 
 - Accelerated crc32 routines
 
 - Move swapper_pg_dir to the rodata section
 
 - Trap WFI instruction executed in user space
 
 - ARM erratum 1188874 workaround (arch_timer)
 
 - Miscellaneous fixes and clean-ups
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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:
 "Apart from some new arm64 features and clean-ups, this also contains
  the core mmu_gather changes for tracking the levels of the page table
  being cleared and a minor update to the generic
  compat_sys_sigaltstack() introducing COMPAT_SIGMINSKSZ.

  Summary:

   - Core mmu_gather changes which allow tracking the levels of
     page-table being cleared together with the arm64 low-level flushing
     routines

   - Support for the new ARMv8.5 PSTATE.SSBS bit which can be used to
     mitigate Spectre-v4 dynamically without trapping to EL3 firmware

   - Introduce COMPAT_SIGMINSTKSZ for use in compat_sys_sigaltstack

   - Optimise emulation of MRS instructions to ID_* registers on ARMv8.4

   - Support for Common Not Private (CnP) translations allowing threads
     of the same CPU to share the TLB entries

   - Accelerated crc32 routines

   - Move swapper_pg_dir to the rodata section

   - Trap WFI instruction executed in user space

   - ARM erratum 1188874 workaround (arch_timer)

   - Miscellaneous fixes and clean-ups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (78 commits)
  arm64: KVM: Guests can skip __install_bp_hardening_cb()s HYP work
  arm64: cpufeature: Trap CTR_EL0 access only where it is necessary
  arm64: cpufeature: Fix handling of CTR_EL0.IDC field
  arm64: cpufeature: ctr: Fix cpu capability check for late CPUs
  Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation
  arm64: mm: Use __pa_symbol() for set_swapper_pgd()
  arm64: Add silicon-errata.txt entry for ARM erratum 1188873
  Revert "arm64: uaccess: implement unsafe accessors"
  arm64: mm: Drop the unused cpu parameter
  MAINTAINERS: fix bad sdei paths
  arm64: mm: Use #ifdef for the __PAGETABLE_P?D_FOLDED defines
  arm64: Fix typo in a comment in arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
  arm64: xen: Use existing helper to check interrupt status
  arm64: Use daifflag_restore after bp_hardening
  arm64: daifflags: Use irqflags functions for daifflags
  arm64: arch_timer: avoid unused function warning
  arm64: Trap WFI executed in userspace
  arm64: docs: Document SSBS HWCAP
  arm64: docs: Fix typos in ELF hwcaps
  arm64/kprobes: remove an extra semicolon in arch_prepare_kprobe
  ...
2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
arch arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
block block: don't deal with discard limit in blkdev_issue_discard() 2018-10-18 07:23:40 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
drivers arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fscache: Fix out of bound read in long cookie keys 2018-10-18 11:32:21 +02:00
include arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
lib arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
mm arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
net Revert "neighbour: force neigh_invalidate when NUD_FAILED update is from admin" 2018-10-20 22:25:01 -07:00
samples samples: disable CONFIG_SAMPLES for UML 2018-10-11 02:15:46 +09:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-10-11 19:23:07 +02:00
security Revert "uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name" 2018-09-25 13:28:58 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Cannot adjust speaker's volume on Dell XPS 27 7760 2018-10-04 07:50:48 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-20 15:02:51 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS arm64 updates for 4.20: 2018-10-22 17:30:06 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19 2018-10-22 07:37:37 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

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.
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.