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Linus Torvalds 7246f60068 powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1.
Highlights include:
 
  - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB
    virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by
    passing a hint to mmap().
 
  - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.
 
  - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.
 
  - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface
    Architecture 2.0".
 
  - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime.
 
  - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for
    KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.
 
  - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating
    them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call
    to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness.
 
 Many fixes and other minor enhancements.
 
 Thanks to:
   Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
   Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben
   Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian
   Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson,
   Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli,
   Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan,
   Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
   R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
   Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev
   Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler,
   Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
     use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
     to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().

   - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.

   - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.

   - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
     Interface Architecture 2.0".

   - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
     runtime.

   - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
     support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

   - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
     correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
     using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
     aid debugging and robustness.

   - Many fixes and other minor enhancements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
  Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
  Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
  Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
  Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
  R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
  Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
  Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
  Yang Shi"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
  powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
  powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
  powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
  powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
  powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
  powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
  powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
  powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
  powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
  cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
  cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
  cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
  powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
  powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
  powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
  powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
  powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
  powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
  ...
2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
arch powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-05-03 10:05:38 -07:00
certs KEYS: Use structure to capture key restriction function and data 2017-04-04 14:10:10 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
Documentation powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
drivers powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
include powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
init New features for this release: 2017-05-03 18:41:21 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
kernel powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
lib USB patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 18:03:51 -07:00
mm New features for this release: 2017-05-03 18:41:21 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
samples char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
scripts char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-03 11:58:59 -07:00
tools powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.11-rc6 2017-04-05 16:27:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.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 mailmap: add Martin Kepplinger's email 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
Makefile A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new 2017-05-02 10:21:17 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.