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Linus Torvalds 69fc06f70f There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map:
- Speed up objtool significantly, especially when there are large number of sections
  - Improve objtool's understanding of special instructions such as IRET,
    to reduce the number of annotations required
  - Implement 'noinstr' validation
  - Do baby steps for non-x86 objtool use
  - Simplify/fix retpoline decoding
  - Add vmlinux validation
  - Improve documentation
  - Fix various bugs and apply smaller cleanups
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'objtool-core-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map:

   - Speed up objtool significantly, especially when there are large
     number of sections

   - Improve objtool's understanding of special instructions such as
     IRET, to reduce the number of annotations required

   - Implement 'noinstr' validation

   - Do baby steps for non-x86 objtool use

   - Simplify/fix retpoline decoding

   - Add vmlinux validation

   - Improve documentation

   - Fix various bugs and apply smaller cleanups"

* tag 'objtool-core-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  objtool: Enable compilation of objtool for all architectures
  objtool: Move struct objtool_file into arch-independent header
  objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help
  objtool: Add check_kcov_mode() to the uaccess safelist
  samples/ftrace: Fix asm function ELF annotations
  objtool: optimize add_dead_ends for split sections
  objtool: use gelf_getsymshndx to handle >64k sections
  objtool: Allow no-op CFI ops in alternatives
  x86/retpoline: Fix retpoline unwind
  x86: Change {JMP,CALL}_NOSPEC argument
  x86: Simplify retpoline declaration
  x86/speculation: Change FILL_RETURN_BUFFER to work with objtool
  objtool: Add support for intra-function calls
  objtool: Move the IRET hack into the arch decoder
  objtool: Remove INSN_STACK
  objtool: Make handle_insn_ops() unconditional
  objtool: Rework allocating stack_ops on decode
  objtool: UNWIND_HINT_RET_OFFSET should not check registers
  objtool: is_fentry_call() crashes if call has no destination
  x86,smap: Fix smap_{save,restore}() alternatives
  ...
2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
arch There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
block Revert "block: end bio with BLK_STS_AGAIN in case of non-mq devs and REQ_NOWAIT" 2020-05-28 13:20:39 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
Documentation The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction 2020-06-01 13:03:31 -07:00
drivers The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction 2020-06-01 13:03:31 -07:00
fs The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction 2020-06-01 13:03:31 -07:00
include There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
init The RCU updates for this cycle were: 2020-06-01 12:56:29 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction 2020-06-01 13:03:31 -07:00
lib There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm The biggest change to core locking facilities in this cycle is the introduction 2020-06-01 13:03:31 -07:00
net Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
samples There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
scripts There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7 (rc8 or final) 2020-05-29 13:31:01 -07:00
tools There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map: 2020-06-01 13:13:00 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Introduce kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() 2020-05-08 07:44:32 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap i2c: use my kernel.org address from now on 2020-05-05 16:29:09 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Add support for wider Memory Bandwidth Monitoring counters by querying 2020-06-01 12:24:14 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7 2020-05-31 16:49:15 -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.