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Linus Torvalds 8cd84b7096 PPC:
* Improvements and bugfixes for secure VM support, giving reduced startup
   time and memory hotplug support.
 * Locking fixes in nested KVM code
 * Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094
 * Preliminary POWER10 support
 
 ARM:
 * Split the VHE and nVHE hypervisor code bases, build the EL2 code
   separately, allowing for the VHE code to now be built with instrumentation
 * Level-based TLB invalidation support
 * Restructure of the vcpu register storage to accomodate the NV code
 * Pointer Authentication available for guests on nVHE hosts
 * Simplification of the system register table parsing
 * MMU cleanups and fixes
 * A number of post-32bit cleanups and other fixes
 
 MIPS:
 * compilation fixes
 
 x86:
 * bugfixes
 * support for the SERIALIZE instruction
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "PPC:
   - Improvements and bugfixes for secure VM support, giving reduced
     startup time and memory hotplug support.

   - Locking fixes in nested KVM code

   - Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094

   - Preliminary POWER10 support

  ARM:
   - Split the VHE and nVHE hypervisor code bases, build the EL2 code
     separately, allowing for the VHE code to now be built with
     instrumentation

   - Level-based TLB invalidation support

   - Restructure of the vcpu register storage to accomodate the NV code

   - Pointer Authentication available for guests on nVHE hosts

   - Simplification of the system register table parsing

   - MMU cleanups and fixes

   - A number of post-32bit cleanups and other fixes

  MIPS:
   - compilation fixes

  x86:
   - bugfixes

   - support for the SERIALIZE instruction"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (70 commits)
  KVM: MIPS/VZ: Fix build error caused by 'kvm_run' cleanup
  x86/kvm/hyper-v: Synic default SCONTROL MSR needs to be enabled
  MIPS: KVM: Convert a fallthrough comment to fallthrough
  MIPS: VZ: Only include loongson_regs.h for CPU_LOONGSON64
  x86: Expose SERIALIZE for supported cpuid
  KVM: x86: Don't attempt to load PDPTRs when 64-bit mode is enabled
  KVM: arm64: Move S1PTW S2 fault logic out of io_mem_abort()
  KVM: arm64: Don't skip cache maintenance for read-only memslots
  KVM: arm64: Handle data and instruction external aborts the same way
  KVM: arm64: Rename kvm_vcpu_dabt_isextabt()
  KVM: arm: Add trace name for ARM_NISV
  KVM: arm64: Ensure that all nVHE hyp code is in .hyp.text
  KVM: arm64: Substitute RANDOMIZE_BASE for HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS
  KVM: arm64: Make nVHE ASLR conditional on RANDOMIZE_BASE
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Rework secure mem slot dropping
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move kvmppc_svm_page_out up
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate hot plugged memory
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: In H_SVM_INIT_DONE, migrate remaining normal-GFNs to secure-GFNs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Track the state GFNs associated with secure VMs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable page merging in H_SVM_INIT_START
  ...
2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
Documentation PPC: 2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch PPC: 2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
block A set of locking fixes and updates: 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
drivers Here's some more updates that missed the last pull request because I 2020-08-12 12:19:49 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
include PPC: 2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
init A set of locking fixes and updates: 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: remove the superfluous break 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix typo in the help text of CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
mm mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
net A set of locking fixes and updates: 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -07:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.9 2020-08-09 14:10:26 -07:00
scripts PPC: 2020-08-12 12:25:06 -07:00
security Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
sound sound updates for 5.9 2020-08-06 14:27:31 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-12 11:24:12 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: Add ZSTD-compressed files 2020-07-31 11:50:49 +02:00
.mailmap It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:53:58 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Here's some more updates that missed the last pull request because I 2020-08-12 12:19:49 -07:00
Makefile ./Makefile: add debug option to enable function aligned on 32 bytes 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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.

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.