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Linus Torvalds 706a1ea65e Merge branch 'tlb-fixes'
Merge fixes for missing TLB shootdowns.

This fixes a couple of cases that involved us possibly freeing page
table structures before the required TLB shootdown had been done.

There are a few cleanup patches to make the code easier to follow, and
to avoid some of the more problematic cases entirely when not necessary.

To make this easier for backports, it undoes the recent lazy TLB
patches, because the cleanups and fixes are more important, and Rik is
ok with re-doing them later when things have calmed down.

The missing TLB flush was only delayed, and the wrong ordering only
happened under memory pressure (and in theory under a couple of other
fairly theoretical situations), so this may have been all very unlikely
to have hit people in practice.

But getting the TLB shootdown wrong is _so_ hard to debug and see that I
consider this a crticial fix.

Many thanks to Jann Horn for having debugged this.

* tlb-fixes:
  x86/mm: Only use tlb_remove_table() for paravirt
  mm: mmu_notifier fix for tlb_end_vma
  mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition
  mm: move tlb_table_flush to tlb_flush_mmu_free
  x86/mm/tlb: Revert the recent lazy TLB patches
2018-08-23 14:55:01 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'tlb-fixes' 2018-08-23 14:55:01 -07:00
block for-4.19/post-20180822 2018-08-22 13:38:05 -07:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-08-16 09:57:20 -07:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation ARM: Device-tree updates 2018-08-23 14:02:22 -07:00
drivers xen: fixes and cleanups for 4.19-rc1, second round 2018-08-23 14:52:23 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs f2fs-for-4.19-rc1 2018-08-22 13:29:39 -07:00
include Merge branch 'tlb-fixes' 2018-08-23 14:55:01 -07:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-22 12:34:08 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool 2018-08-22 10:52:52 -07:00
kernel Masami found an off by one bug in the code that keeps "notrace" functions 2018-08-23 13:07:00 -07:00
lib lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation 2018-08-22 10:52:52 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm: mmu_notifier fix for tlb_end_vma 2018-08-23 11:55:58 -07:00
net The main things are support for cephx v2 authentication protocol and 2018-08-20 18:26:55 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts checkpatch: DT bindings should be a separate patch 2018-08-22 10:52:49 -07:00
security init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using relative references 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
sound DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
tools ARM: Support for Group0 interrupts in guests, Cache management 2018-08-22 13:52:44 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt ARM: Support for Group0 interrupts in guests, Cache management 2018-08-22 13:52:44 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
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Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: Device-tree updates 2018-08-23 14:02:22 -07:00
Makefile Updates for v4.19: 2018-08-20 18:32:00 -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.