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* DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped pages.
   The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a pinned page
   from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical block. With DAX
   the page is equivalent to the filesystem block. Introduce
   dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for pinned DAX
   pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem could allocate
   blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.
 
 * DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
   dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
   However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
   block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
   block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().
 
 * Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
   Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they are not
   necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are power-fail
   protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed on
   REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to
  memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the
  x86-dax- for-linus pull.

  Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for
  handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax
  mappings.

  Summary:

   - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped
     pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a
     pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical
     block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block.
     Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for
     pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem
     could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.

   - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
     dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
     However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
     block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
     block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().

   - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
     Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they
     are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are
     power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed
     on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers
  libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches
  libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync
  libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH => REQ_PREFLUSH
  acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
  dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds
  libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources
  libnvdimm: Debug probe times
  linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
  x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()
  pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
  dax: Introduce a ->copy_to_iter dax operation
  uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation
  xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts()
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
  mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings
  mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap
  mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
  ...
2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
arch libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
block for-linus-20180608 2018-06-08 13:36:19 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto - Introduce arithmetic overflow test helper functions (Rasmus) 2018-06-06 17:27:14 -07:00
Documentation libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
drivers libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
include libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-06-06 18:39:49 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 21:02:18 -07:00
kernel libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
lib libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
net net/9p/trans_xen.c: don't inclide rwlock.h directly 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
samples Mostly small fixes and cleanups, plus a non-trivial fix for charlcd 2018-06-07 14:01:16 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-06-07 18:39:37 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-smack' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-06-07 15:57:04 -07:00
sound media updates for v4.18-rc1 2018-06-07 12:34:37 -07:00
tools libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.18: 2018-06-08 11:10:58 -07:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
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Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-06-06 18:39:49 -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.