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Linus Torvalds c9b012e5f4 arm64 updates for 4.15
Plenty of acronym soup here:
 
 - Initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
 - Improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS events)
 - Enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types
 - Remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps
 - Use of WFE to implement long delay()s
 - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi
 - Perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)
 - Perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs
 - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
  which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing
  applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large
  new vector context (<= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further
  work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI
  is solid now.

  Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but
  they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in
  future.

  Plenty of acronym soup here:

   - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

   - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS
     events)

   - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types

   - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps

   - use of WFE to implement long delay()s

   - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)

   - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs

   - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits)
  arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL
  arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function
  arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+
  arm64/sve: Add documentation
  arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
  arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests
  arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution
  arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE
  arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes
  arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management
  arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
  arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths
  arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations
  arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
  arm64/sve: Signal handling support
  arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
  arm64/sve: Core task context handling
  arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup
  ...
2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
arch arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-11-14 16:07:26 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
drivers arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
include arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
init Merge branch 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-11-15 10:14:11 -08:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
lib RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-11-15 10:14:11 -08:00
net Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2017-11-15 10:21:58 -08:00
scripts DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
tools This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle: 2017-11-14 17:23:44 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
.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 .gitignore: move *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns to the top-level .gitignore 2017-11-08 11:20:24 -06:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
Makefile RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.