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Linus Torvalds 5e2d059b52 powerpc updates for 4.19
Notable changes:
 
  - A fix for a bug in our page table fragment allocator, where a page table page
    could be freed and reallocated for something else while still in use, leading
    to memory corruption etc. The fix reuses pt_mm in struct page (x86 only) for
    a powerpc only refcount.
 
  - Fixes to our pkey support. Several are user-visible changes, but bring us in
    to line with x86 behaviour and/or fix outright bugs. Thanks to Florian Weimer
    for reporting many of these.
 
  - A series to improve the hvc driver & related OPAL console code, which have
    been seen to cause hardlockups at times. The hvc driver changes in particular
    have been in linux-next for ~month.
 
  - Increase our MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y.
 
  - Remove Power8 DD1 and Power9 DD1 support, neither chip should be in use
    anywhere other than as a paper weight.
 
  - An optimised memcmp implementation using Power7-or-later VMX instructions
 
  - Support for barrier_nospec on some NXP CPUs.
 
  - Support for flushing the count cache on context switch on some IBM CPUs
    (controlled by firmware), as a Spectre v2 mitigation.
 
  - A series to enhance the information we print on unhandled signals to bring it
    into line with other arches, including showing the offending VMA and dumping
    the instructions around the fault.
 
 Thanks to:
   Aaro Koskinen, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alexey
   Spirkov, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar,
   Arnd Bergmann, Bartosz Golaszewski, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharat Bhushan,
   Bjoern Noetel, Boqun Feng, Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Camelia Groza,
   Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Cyril Bur, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Klamt,
   Darren Stevens, Dave Young, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Finn Thain, Florian
   Weimer, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geoff Levand,
   Guenter Roeck, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
   Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus
   Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues, Michael Hanselmann, Michael
   Neuling, Michael Schmitz, Mukesh Ojha, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nicholas
   Piggin, Parth Y Shah, Paul Mackerras, Paul Menzel, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap,
   Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab, Rodrigo R. Galvao, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff,
   Scott Wood, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo, Souptick Joarder, Stan Johnson,
   Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Venkat Rao
   B, zhong jiang.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A fix for a bug in our page table fragment allocator, where a page
     table page could be freed and reallocated for something else while
     still in use, leading to memory corruption etc. The fix reuses
     pt_mm in struct page (x86 only) for a powerpc only refcount.

   - Fixes to our pkey support. Several are user-visible changes, but
     bring us in to line with x86 behaviour and/or fix outright bugs.
     Thanks to Florian Weimer for reporting many of these.

   - A series to improve the hvc driver & related OPAL console code,
     which have been seen to cause hardlockups at times. The hvc driver
     changes in particular have been in linux-next for ~month.

   - Increase our MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y.

   - Remove Power8 DD1 and Power9 DD1 support, neither chip should be in
     use anywhere other than as a paper weight.

   - An optimised memcmp implementation using Power7-or-later VMX
     instructions

   - Support for barrier_nospec on some NXP CPUs.

   - Support for flushing the count cache on context switch on some IBM
     CPUs (controlled by firmware), as a Spectre v2 mitigation.

   - A series to enhance the information we print on unhandled signals
     to bring it into line with other arches, including showing the
     offending VMA and dumping the instructions around the fault.

  Thanks to: Aaro Koskinen, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
  Kardashevskiy, Alexey Spirkov, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
  Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd Bergmann, Bartosz Golaszewski,
  Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharat Bhushan, Bjoern Noetel, Boqun Feng,
  Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Camelia Groza, Christophe Leroy, Christoph
  Hellwig, Cyril Bur, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Klamt, Darren Stevens, Dave
  Young, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Finn Thain, Florian Weimer,
  Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geoff Levand,
  Guenter Roeck, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel
  Stanley, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
  Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Michael Schmitz, Mukesh Ojha,
  Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nicholas Piggin, Parth Y Shah, Paul
  Mackerras, Paul Menzel, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap, Rashmica Gupta, Reza
  Arbab, Rodrigo R. Galvao, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Scott Wood,
  Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo, Souptick Joarder, Stan Johnson, Thiago
  Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Venkat
  Rao, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (234 commits)
  powerpc/mm/book3s/radix: Add mapping statistics
  powerpc/uaccess: Enable get_user(u64, *p) on 32-bit
  powerpc/mm/hash: Remove unnecessary do { } while(0) loop
  powerpc/64s: move machine check SLB flushing to mm/slb.c
  powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix build error
  powerpc/mm/tlbflush: update the mmu_gather page size while iterating address range
  powerpc/mm: remove warning about ‘type’ being set
  powerpc/32: Include setup.h header file to fix warnings
  powerpc: Move `path` variable inside DEBUG_PROM
  powerpc/powermac: Make some functions static
  powerpc/powermac: Remove variable x that's never read
  cxl: remove a dead branch
  powerpc/powermac: Add missing include of header pmac.h
  powerpc/kexec: Use common error handling code in setup_new_fdt()
  powerpc/xmon: Add address lookup for percpu symbols
  powerpc/mm: remove huge_pte_offset_and_shift() prototype
  powerpc/lib: Use patch_site to patch copy_32 functions once cache is enabled
  powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler.
  powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segements
  powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
  ...
2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
arch powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
block for-4.19/block-20180812 2018-08-14 10:23:25 -07:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-08-16 09:57:20 -07:00
crypto Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-08-16 09:57:20 -07:00
Documentation powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
drivers powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs \n 2018-08-17 09:41:28 -07:00
include powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
init Consolidation of Kconfig files by Christoph Hellwig. 2018-08-15 13:05:12 -07:00
ipc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
kernel Modules updates for v4.19 2018-08-17 10:51:22 -07:00
lib SCSI misc on 20180815 2018-08-15 22:06:26 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm Consolidation of Kconfig files by Christoph Hellwig. 2018-08-15 13:05:12 -07:00
net Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-08-15 16:01:47 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
scripts powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-08-15 22:54:12 -07:00
sound powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
tools powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.19 2018-08-14 16:39:13 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: remap some of my email addresses to kernel.org address 2018-08-06 13:15:16 -04:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS powerpc updates for 4.19 2018-08-17 11:32:50 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.19 2018-08-15 12:50:10 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
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.