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Paolo Bonzini 7dd2157cb6 PPC KVM update for 4.20.
The major new feature here is nested HV KVM support.  This allows the
 HV KVM module to load inside a radix guest on POWER9 and run radix
 guests underneath it.  These nested guests can run in supervisor mode
 and don't require any additional instructions to be emulated, unlike
 with PR KVM, and so performance is much better than with PR KVM, and
 is very close to the performance of a non-nested guest.  A nested
 hypervisor (a guest with nested guests) can be migrated to another
 host and will bring all its nested guests along with it.  A nested
 guest can also itself run guests, and so on down to any desired depth
 of nesting.
 
 Apart from that there are a series of updates for IOMMU handling from
 Alexey Kardashevskiy, a "one VM per core" mode for HV KVM for
 security-paranoid applications, and a small fix for PR KVM.
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Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into HEAD

PPC KVM update for 4.20.

The major new feature here is nested HV KVM support.  This allows the
HV KVM module to load inside a radix guest on POWER9 and run radix
guests underneath it.  These nested guests can run in supervisor mode
and don't require any additional instructions to be emulated, unlike
with PR KVM, and so performance is much better than with PR KVM, and
is very close to the performance of a non-nested guest.  A nested
hypervisor (a guest with nested guests) can be migrated to another
host and will bring all its nested guests along with it.  A nested
guest can also itself run guests, and so on down to any desired depth
of nesting.

Apart from that there are a series of updates for IOMMU handling from
Alexey Kardashevskiy, a "one VM per core" mode for HV KVM for
security-paranoid applications, and a small fix for PR KVM.
2018-10-10 18:38:32 +02:00
arch KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add NO_HASH flag to GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl result 2018-10-09 16:14:54 +11:00
block blk-cgroup: increase number of supported policies 2018-09-11 10:59:53 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add NO_HASH flag to GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl result 2018-10-09 16:14:54 +11:00
drivers KVM: s390: Features for 4.20 2018-10-04 17:12:45 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This pull request contains fixes for UBIFS: 2018-09-21 15:29:44 +02:00
include KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add NO_HASH flag to GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl result 2018-10-09 16:14:54 +11:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: properly return EIDRM in shm_lock() 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
kernel kernel/sys.c: remove duplicated include 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix three typos in help text 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
net net/ipv6: do not copy dst flags on rt init 2018-09-17 19:42:14 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
security Revert "x86/mm/legacy: Populate the user page-table with user pgd's" 2018-09-14 17:08:45 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
tools Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm' into kvm-ppc-next 2018-10-09 16:13:20 +11:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +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 Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
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
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS KVM: s390: Features for 4.20 2018-10-04 17:12:45 +02:00
Makefile linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
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.