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Heiko Carstens 00de54c803 s390/mem_detect: fix memory type of first block
Fix a long-standing but currently irrelevant bug: the memory detection
code performs a tprot instruction on address zero to figure out if the
first memory chunk is readable or writable. Due to low address
protection the result is "read-only". If the memory detection code
would actually care, it would have to ignore the first memory
increment, but it adds the memory increment to writable memory anyway.

If memblock debugging is enabled this leads to an extra rather
surprising call which registers memory. To avoid this get rid of the
first misleading tprot call and simply assume that the first memory
increment is writable. Otherwise we wouldn't have reached the memory
detection code anyway.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-01-16 07:27:54 +01:00
Documentation Driver core fix for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-15 12:38:53 -08:00
arch s390/mem_detect: fix memory type of first block 2017-01-16 07:27:54 +01:00
block block: don't try to discard from __blkdev_issue_zeroout 2017-01-13 15:18:16 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers s390: proper type casts for csum_partial invocations 2017-01-16 07:27:53 +01:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
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init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: eventfd: fix NULL deref irqbypass consumer 2017-01-12 14:42:34 +01:00
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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.