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Linus Torvalds 685f7e4f16 powerpc updates for 4.20
Notable changes:
 
  - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of fairly
    complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.
 
  - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for each
    process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27% speedup for our
    context switch benchmark on Power9.
 
  - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print more debug
    information when they occur, and try to continue running by flushing the SLB
    and reloading, rather than treating them as fatal.
 
  - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).
 
  - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on 64-bit
    Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system memory, otherwise the
    percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.
 
  - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task canary.
 
  - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.
 
  - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are presented
    to us as a single SMT8 core.
 
  - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE flags.
 
  - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface, allowing
    guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).
 
  - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we need to use
    a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().
 
 Many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.
 
 Thanks to:
   Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton Blanchard, Aravinda
   Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao,
   Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel
   Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari
   Bathini, Jia Hongtao, Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan
   Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael
   Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
   Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran,
   Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab, Rob Herring, Sam
   Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell,
   Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant
   Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang,
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
arch powerpc updates for 4.20 2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
block block, bfq: fix asymmetric scenarios detection 2018-10-25 11:17:40 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-10-25 16:43:35 -07:00
Documentation powerpc updates for 4.20 2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
drivers powerpc updates for 4.20 2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs NFS client updates for Linux 4.20 2018-10-26 13:05:26 -07:00
include powerpc updates for 4.20 2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
init Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 15:00:03 +01:00
ipc Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-25 11:14:36 -07:00
kernel Second batch of dma-mapping updates for 4.20: 2018-10-26 11:29:17 -07:00
lib Devicetree updates for 4.20: 2018-10-26 12:09:58 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm Driver core patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 08:42:25 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 4.20 2018-10-26 13:05:26 -07:00
samples Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
scripts Devicetree updates for 4.20: 2018-10-26 12:09:58 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-loadpin' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-10-25 13:32:00 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.20 2018-10-25 09:00:15 -07:00
tools powerpc updates for 4.20 2018-10-26 14:36:21 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM updates for v4.20 2018-10-25 17:57:35 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +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 Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
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 Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
Makefile Devicetree updates for 4.20: 2018-10-26 12:09:58 -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.