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Linus Torvalds 152d32aa84 ARM:
- Stage-2 isolation for the host kernel when running in protected mode
 
 - Guest SVE support when running in nVHE mode
 
 - Force W^X hypervisor mappings in nVHE mode
 
 - ITS save/restore for guests using direct injection with GICv4.1
 
 - nVHE panics now produce readable backtraces
 
 - Guest support for PTP using the ptp_kvm driver
 
 - Performance improvements in the S2 fault handler
 
 x86:
 
 - Optimizations and cleanup of nested SVM code
 
 - AMD: Support for virtual SPEC_CTRL
 
 - Optimizations of the new MMU code: fast invalidation,
   zap under read lock, enable/disably dirty page logging under
   read lock
 
 - /dev/kvm API for AMD SEV live migration (guest API coming soon)
 
 - support SEV virtual machines sharing the same encryption context
 
 - support SGX in virtual machines
 
 - add a few more statistics
 
 - improved directed yield heuristics
 
 - Lots and lots of cleanups
 
 Generic:
 
 - Rework of MMU notifier interface, simplifying and optimizing
 the architecture-specific code
 
 - Some selftests improvements
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This is a large update by KVM standards, including AMD PSP (Platform
  Security Processor, aka "AMD Secure Technology") and ARM CoreSight
  (debug and trace) changes.

  ARM:

   - CoreSight: Add support for ETE and TRBE

   - Stage-2 isolation for the host kernel when running in protected
     mode

   - Guest SVE support when running in nVHE mode

   - Force W^X hypervisor mappings in nVHE mode

   - ITS save/restore for guests using direct injection with GICv4.1

   - nVHE panics now produce readable backtraces

   - Guest support for PTP using the ptp_kvm driver

   - Performance improvements in the S2 fault handler

  x86:

   - AMD PSP driver changes

   - Optimizations and cleanup of nested SVM code

   - AMD: Support for virtual SPEC_CTRL

   - Optimizations of the new MMU code: fast invalidation, zap under
     read lock, enable/disably dirty page logging under read lock

   - /dev/kvm API for AMD SEV live migration (guest API coming soon)

   - support SEV virtual machines sharing the same encryption context

   - support SGX in virtual machines

   - add a few more statistics

   - improved directed yield heuristics

   - Lots and lots of cleanups

  Generic:

   - Rework of MMU notifier interface, simplifying and optimizing the
     architecture-specific code

   - a handful of "Get rid of oprofile leftovers" patches

   - Some selftests improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (379 commits)
  KVM: selftests: Speed up set_memory_region_test
  selftests: kvm: Fix the check of return value
  KVM: x86: Take advantage of kvm_arch_dy_has_pending_interrupt()
  KVM: SVM: Skip SEV cache flush if no ASIDs have been used
  KVM: SVM: Remove an unnecessary prototype declaration of sev_flush_asids()
  KVM: SVM: Drop redundant svm_sev_enabled() helper
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV VMCB tracking allocation to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Explicitly check max SEV ASID during sev_hardware_setup()
  KVM: SVM: Unconditionally invoke sev_hardware_teardown()
  KVM: SVM: Enable SEV/SEV-ES functionality by default (when supported)
  KVM: SVM: Condition sev_enabled and sev_es_enabled on CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
  KVM: SVM: Append "_enabled" to module-scoped SEV/SEV-ES control variables
  KVM: SEV: Mask CPUID[0x8000001F].eax according to supported features
  KVM: SVM: Move SEV module params/variables to sev.c
  KVM: SVM: Disable SEV/SEV-ES if NPT is disabled
  KVM: SVM: Free sev_asid_bitmap during init if SEV setup fails
  KVM: SVM: Zero out the VMCB array used to track SEV ASID association
  x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev_enabled'
  KVM: x86: Move reverse CPUID helpers to separate header file
  KVM: x86: Rename GPR accessors to make mode-aware variants the defaults
  ...
2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
arch ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
block cgroup: rstat: punt root-level optimization to individual controllers 2021-04-30 11:20:37 -07:00
certs certs: add 'x509_revocation_list' to gitignore 2021-04-26 10:48:07 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
drivers ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
fs New features for ext4 this cycle include support for encrypted 2021-04-30 15:35:30 -07:00
include ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
init mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init() 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
lib ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/memory-failure: unnecessary amount of unmapping 2021-04-30 11:20:44 -07:00
net RDMA merge window pull request 2021-05-01 09:15:05 -07:00
samples samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy: use remap_vmalloc_range 2021-04-30 11:20:39 -07:00
scripts scripts: a new script for checking duplicate struct declaration 2021-04-30 11:20:35 -07:00
security Networking changes for 5.13. 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -07:00
sound sound updates for 5.13 2021-04-30 12:48:14 -07:00
tools ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: Boost vCPU candidate in user mode which is delivering interrupt 2021-04-21 12:20:03 -04:00
.clang-format cxl for 5.12 2021-02-24 09:38:36 -08:00
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.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-04-25 05:17:02 +09:00
.mailmap It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than usually 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Core Frameworks 2021-04-28 15:59:13 -07:00
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 ARM: 2021-05-01 10:14:08 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v5.13 2021-04-29 14:32:00 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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.

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.