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Linus Torvalds d4615e5a46 A few tracing fixes:
- Removed locked down from tracefs itself and moved it to the trace
    directory. Having the open functions there do the lockdown checks.
 
  - Fixed a few races with opening an instance file and the instance being
    deleted (Discovered during the locked down updates). Kept separate
    from the clean up code such that they can be backported to stable
    easier.
 
  - Cleaned up and consolidated the checks done when opening a trace
    file, as there were multiple checks that need to be done, and it
    did not make sense having them done in each open instance.
 
  - Fixed a regression in the record mcount code.
 
  - Small hw_lat detector tracer fixes.
 
  - A trace_pipe read fix due to not initializing trace_seq.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "A few tracing fixes:

   - Remove lockdown from tracefs itself and moved it to the trace
     directory. Have the open functions there do the lockdown checks.

   - Fix a few races with opening an instance file and the instance
     being deleted (Discovered during the lockdown updates). Kept
     separate from the clean up code such that they can be backported to
     stable easier.

   - Clean up and consolidated the checks done when opening a trace
     file, as there were multiple checks that need to be done, and it
     did not make sense having them done in each open instance.

   - Fix a regression in the record mcount code.

   - Small hw_lat detector tracer fixes.

   - A trace_pipe read fix due to not initializing trace_seq"

* tag 'trace-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Initialize iter->seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe()
  tracing/hwlat: Don't ignore outer-loop duration when calculating max_latency
  tracing/hwlat: Report total time spent in all NMIs during the sample
  recordmcount: Fix nop_mcount() function
  tracing: Do not create tracefs files if tracefs lockdown is in effect
  tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs
  tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()
  tracing: Have trace events system open call tracing_open_generic_tr()
  tracing: Get trace_array reference for available_tracers files
  ftrace: Get a reference counter for the trace_array on filter files
  tracefs: Revert ccbd54ff54 ("tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down")
2019-10-13 14:47:10 -07:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-13 08:40:31 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch USB fixes for 5.4-rc3 2019-10-12 15:37:12 -07:00
block blk-wbt: fix performance regression in wbt scale_up/scale_down 2019-10-06 09:26:41 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
drivers hwmon fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-13 08:40:31 -07:00
fs A few tracing fixes: 2019-10-13 14:47:10 -07:00
include hwmon fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-13 08:40:31 -07:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel A few tracing fixes: 2019-10-13 14:47:10 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-10-12 14:46:14 -07:00
mm for-linus-20191010 2019-10-11 08:45:32 -07:00
net NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 5.4-rc3 2019-10-11 14:28:59 -07:00
samples rpmsg updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:58:15 -07:00
scripts A few tracing fixes: 2019-10-13 14:47:10 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.4 PR 20191007 2019-10-08 10:51:37 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-24 16:46:16 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-10-12 15:15:17 -07:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.4, take #1 2019-10-03 12:08:50 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-09-18 12:34:53 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS USB fixes for 5.4-rc3 2019-10-12 15:37:12 -07:00
Makefile Modules fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-11 10:19:24 -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.