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Linus Torvalds f4000cd997 arm64 updates for 4.10:
- struct thread_info moved off-stack (also touching
   include/linux/thread_info.h and include/linux/restart_block.h)
 
 - cpus_have_cap() reworked to avoid __builtin_constant_p() for static
   key use (also touching drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c)
 
 - Uprobes support (currently only for native 64-bit tasks)
 
 - Emulation of kernel Privileged Access Never (PAN) using TTBR0_EL1
   switching to a reserved page table
 
 - CPU capacity information passing via DT or sysfs (used by the
   scheduler)
 
 - Support for systems without FP/SIMD (IOW, kernel avoids touching these
   registers; there is no soft-float ABI, nor kernel emulation for
   AArch64 FP/SIMD)
 
 - Handling of hardware watchpoint with unaligned addresses, varied
   lengths and offsets from base
 
 - Use of the page table contiguous hint for kernel mappings
 
 - Hugetlb fixes for sizes involving the contiguous hint
 
 - Remove unnecessary I-cache invalidation in flush_cache_range()
 
 - CNTHCTL_EL2 access fix for CPUs with VHE support (ARMv8.1)
 
 - Boot-time checks for writable+executable kernel mappings
 
 - Simplify asm/opcodes.h and avoid including the 32-bit ARM counterpart
   and make the arm64 kernel headers self-consistent (Xen headers patch
   merged separately)
 
 - Workaround for broken .inst support in certain binutils versions
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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:

 - struct thread_info moved off-stack (also touching
   include/linux/thread_info.h and include/linux/restart_block.h)

 - cpus_have_cap() reworked to avoid __builtin_constant_p() for static
   key use (also touching drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c)

 - uprobes support (currently only for native 64-bit tasks)

 - Emulation of kernel Privileged Access Never (PAN) using TTBR0_EL1
   switching to a reserved page table

 - CPU capacity information passing via DT or sysfs (used by the
   scheduler)

 - support for systems without FP/SIMD (IOW, kernel avoids touching
   these registers; there is no soft-float ABI, nor kernel emulation for
   AArch64 FP/SIMD)

 - handling of hardware watchpoint with unaligned addresses, varied
   lengths and offsets from base

 - use of the page table contiguous hint for kernel mappings

 - hugetlb fixes for sizes involving the contiguous hint

 - remove unnecessary I-cache invalidation in flush_cache_range()

 - CNTHCTL_EL2 access fix for CPUs with VHE support (ARMv8.1)

 - boot-time checks for writable+executable kernel mappings

 - simplify asm/opcodes.h and avoid including the 32-bit ARM counterpart
   and make the arm64 kernel headers self-consistent (Xen headers patch
   merged separately)

 - Workaround for broken .inst support in certain binutils versions

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (60 commits)
  arm64: Disable PAN on uaccess_enable()
  arm64: Work around broken .inst when defective gas is detected
  arm64: Add detection code for broken .inst support in binutils
  arm64: Remove reference to asm/opcodes.h
  arm64: Get rid of asm/opcodes.h
  arm64: smp: Prevent raw_smp_processor_id() recursion
  arm64: head.S: Fix CNTHCTL_EL2 access on VHE system
  arm64: Remove I-cache invalidation from flush_cache_range()
  arm64: Enable HIBERNATION in defconfig
  arm64: Enable CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
  arm64: xen: Enable user access before a privcmd hvc call
  arm64: Handle faults caused by inadvertent user access with PAN enabled
  arm64: Disable TTBR0_EL1 during normal kernel execution
  arm64: Introduce uaccess_{disable,enable} functionality based on TTBR0_EL1
  arm64: Factor out TTBR0_EL1 post-update workaround into a specific asm macro
  arm64: Factor out PAN enabling/disabling into separate uaccess_* macros
  arm64: Update the synchronous external abort fault description
  selftests: arm64: add test for unaligned/inexact watchpoint handling
  arm64: Allow hw watchpoint of length 3,5,6 and 7
  arm64: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact watchpoint addresses
  ...
2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 4.10: 2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
arch arm64 updates for 4.10: 2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata 2016-12-13 13:26:24 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-10 16:21:55 -05:00
drivers arm64 updates for 4.10: 2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs xen: features and fixes for 4.10 rc0 2016-12-13 16:07:55 -08:00
include arm64 updates for 4.10: 2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
init Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-12-13 12:59:57 -08:00
ipc sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q 2016-11-21 10:29:01 +01:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-12-13 12:59:57 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb 2016-12-13 15:52:23 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-12-13 12:59:57 -08:00
net Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 19:25:04 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 09:23:56 -08:00
scripts Char/Misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 12:11:01 -08:00
security Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 19:56:15 -08:00
sound Main pull request for drm for 4.10 kernel 2016-12-13 09:35:09 -08:00
tools arm64 updates for 4.10: 2016-12-13 16:39:21 -08:00
usr usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert 2014-12-13 12:42:52 -08:00
virt Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt improvements. 2016-12-13 15:47:02 -08:00
.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 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-10-15 09:26:12 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-12 15:23:02 -08:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-12-13 16:33:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.9 2016-12-11 11:17:54 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.