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* A rework of the filesytem-dax implementation provides for detection of
   unmap operations (truncate / hole punch) colliding with in-progress
   device-DMA. A fix for these collisions remains a work-in-progress
   pending resolution of truncate latency and starvation regressions.
 
 * The of_pmem driver expands the users of libnvdimm outside of x86 and
   ACPI to describe an implementation of persistent memory on PowerPC with
   Open Firmware / Device tree.
 
 * Address Range Scrub (ARS) handling is completely rewritten to account for
   the fact that ARS may run for 100s of seconds and there is no platform
   defined way to cancel it. ARS will now no longer block namespace
   initialization.
 
 * The NVDIMM Namespace Label implementation is updated to handle label
   areas as small as 1K, down from 128K.
 
 * Miscellaneous cleanups and updates to unit test infrastructure.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This cycle was was not something I ever want to repeat as there were
  several late changes that have only now just settled.

  Half of the branch up to commit d2c997c0f1 ("fs, dax: use
  page->mapping to warn...") have been in -next for several releases.
  The of_pmem driver and the address range scrub rework were late
  arrivals, and the dax work was scaled back at the last moment.

  The of_pmem driver missed a previous merge window due to an oversight.
  A sense of obligation to rectify that miss is why it is included for
  4.17. It has acks from PowerPC folks. Stephen reported a build failure
  that only occurs when merging it with your latest tree, for now I have
  fixed that up by disabling modular builds of of_pmem. A test merge
  with your tree has received a build success report from the 0day robot
  over 156 configs.

  An initial version of the ARS rework was submitted before the merge
  window. It is self contained to libnvdimm, a net code reduction, and
  passing all unit tests.

  The filesystem-dax changes are based on the wait_var_event()
  functionality from tip/sched/core. However, late review feedback
  showed that those changes regressed truncate performance to a large
  degree. The branch was rewound to drop the truncate behavior change
  and now only includes preparation patches and cleanups (with full acks
  and reviews). The finalization of this dax-dma-vs-trnucate work will
  need to wait for 4.18.

  Summary:

   - A rework of the filesytem-dax implementation provides for detection
     of unmap operations (truncate / hole punch) colliding with
     in-progress device-DMA. A fix for these collisions remains a
     work-in-progress pending resolution of truncate latency and
     starvation regressions.

   - The of_pmem driver expands the users of libnvdimm outside of x86
     and ACPI to describe an implementation of persistent memory on
     PowerPC with Open Firmware / Device tree.

   - Address Range Scrub (ARS) handling is completely rewritten to
     account for the fact that ARS may run for 100s of seconds and there
     is no platform defined way to cancel it. ARS will now no longer
     block namespace initialization.

   - The NVDIMM Namespace Label implementation is updated to handle
     label areas as small as 1K, down from 128K.

   - Miscellaneous cleanups and updates to unit test infrastructure"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (39 commits)
  libnvdimm, of_pmem: workaround OF_NUMA=n build error
  nfit, address-range-scrub: add module option to skip initial ars
  nfit, address-range-scrub: rework and simplify ARS state machine
  nfit, address-range-scrub: determine one platform max_ars value
  powerpc/powernv: Create platform devs for nvdimm buses
  doc/devicetree: Persistent memory region bindings
  libnvdimm: Add device-tree based driver
  libnvdimm: Add of_node to region and bus descriptors
  libnvdimm, region: quiet region probe
  libnvdimm, namespace: use a safe lookup for dimm device name
  libnvdimm, dimm: fix dpa reservation vs uninitialized label area
  libnvdimm, testing: update the default smart ctrl_temperature
  libnvdimm, testing: Add emulation for smart injection commands
  nfit, address-range-scrub: introduce nfit_spa->ars_state
  libnvdimm: add an api to cast a 'struct nd_region' to its 'struct device'
  nfit, address-range-scrub: fix scrub in-progress reporting
  dax, dm: allow device-mapper to operate without dax support
  dax: introduce CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER
  fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate collides with a busy page
  ext2, dax: introduce ext2_dax_aops
  ...
2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
arch libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix possible uninit-value in alg_bind() 2018-04-07 22:32:31 -04:00
Documentation libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
drivers libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
include libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
init This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.17 kernel cycle: 2018-04-05 09:51:41 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-04-09 17:04:10 -07:00
lib powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-04-09 17:04:10 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-06 19:44:27 -07:00
scripts Leaking-addresses patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-07 11:56:33 -07:00
security selinux: fix missing dput() before selinuxfs unmount 2018-04-09 11:52:56 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-10 10:16:04 -07:00
tools libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* 2018-03-26 02:01:23 +09:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
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 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS libnvdimm for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:25:57 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -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.