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Linus Torvalds e310396bb8 Tracing updates:
- Added new "bootconfig".
    Looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options.
    This has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
    Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
    Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
 
  - Created dynamic event creation.
    Merges common code between creating synthetic events and
      kprobe events.
 
  - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
 
  - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
    Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
 
  - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
 
  - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
 
  - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
 
  - Various other small fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Added new "bootconfig".

   This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
   and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.

   Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.

   Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.

 - Created dynamic event creation.

   Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
   events.

 - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"

 - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"

   Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"

 - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.

 - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized

 - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly

 - Various other small fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
  bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
  tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
  bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
  bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
  ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
  ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
  tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
  tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
  bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
  tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
  tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
  tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
  tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
  tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
  tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
  tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
  tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
  tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
  tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
  tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
  ...
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mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-02-04 07:24:48 +00:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-02-04 13:32:20 +00:00
samples proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
scripts mm: remove __krealloc 2020-02-04 03:05:24 +00:00
security linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
sound treewide: remove redundant IS_ERR() before error code check 2020-02-04 03:05:27 +00:00
tools Tracing updates: 2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
usr initramfs: do not show compression mode choice if INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty 2020-02-03 17:31:43 +00:00
virt Merge branch 'cve-2019-3016' into kvm-next-5.6 2020-01-30 18:47:59 +01:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap RTC for 5.6 2020-02-04 07:03:40 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Tracing updates: 2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
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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.