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Linus Torvalds e4cbce4d13 The main changes in this cycle were:
- Improve uclamp performance by using a static key for the fast path
 
  - Add the "sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default" sysctl, to optimize for
    better power efficiency of RT tasks on battery powered devices.
    (The default is to maximize performance & reduce RT latencies.)
 
  - Improve utime and stime tracking accuracy, which had a fixed boundary
    of error, which created larger and larger relative errors as the values
    become larger. This is now replaced with more precise arithmetics,
    using the new mul_u64_u64_div_u64() helper in math64.h.
 
  - Improve the deadline scheduler, such as making it capacity aware
 
  - Improve frequency-invariant scheduling
 
  - Misc cleanups in energy/power aware scheduling
 
  - Add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint to track changes to nr_running
 
  - Documentation additions and updates
 
  - Misc cleanups and smaller fixes
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve uclamp performance by using a static key for the fast path

 - Add the "sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default" sysctl, to optimize for
   better power efficiency of RT tasks on battery powered devices.
   (The default is to maximize performance & reduce RT latencies.)

 - Improve utime and stime tracking accuracy, which had a fixed boundary
   of error, which created larger and larger relative errors as the
   values become larger. This is now replaced with more precise
   arithmetics, using the new mul_u64_u64_div_u64() helper in math64.h.

 - Improve the deadline scheduler, such as making it capacity aware

 - Improve frequency-invariant scheduling

 - Misc cleanups in energy/power aware scheduling

 - Add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint to track changes to nr_running

 - Documentation additions and updates

 - Misc cleanups and smaller fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rst
  sched/doc: Document capacity aware scheduling
  sched: Document arch_scale_*_capacity()
  arm, arm64: Fix selection of CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
  sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value
  sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key
  sched: Remove duplicated tick_nohz_full_enabled() check
  sched: Fix a typo in a comment
  sched/uclamp: Remove unnecessary mutex_init()
  arm, arm64: Select CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE kconfig entry
  arch_topology, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition
  trace/events/sched.h: fix duplicated word
  linux/sched/mm.h: drop duplicated words in comments
  smp: Fix a potential usage of stale nr_cpus
  sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal
  sched: nohz: stop passing around unused "ticks" parameter.
  sched: Better document ttwu()
  sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running
  ...
2020-08-03 14:58:38 -07:00
arch The main changes in this cycle were: 2020-08-03 14:58:38 -07:00
block for-5.9/io_uring-20200802 2020-08-03 13:01:22 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-03 10:40:14 -07:00
Documentation The main changes in this cycle were: 2020-08-03 14:58:38 -07:00
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fs These are the latest RCU bits for v5.9: 2020-08-03 14:31:33 -07:00
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init arm, arm64: Fix selection of CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE 2020-07-29 16:14:16 +02:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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security for-5.9/block-20200802 2020-08-03 11:57:03 -07:00
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tools Misc updates: 2020-08-03 14:45:33 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt kvm: use more precise cast and do not drop __user 2020-07-02 05:39:31 -04:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8 2020-08-02 14:21:45 -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.