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Linus Torvalds 8557b8e43a Greg Kroah-Hartman reported to me that the ktest of v4.10 locked up in an
infinite loop while doing the make mrproper. Looking into the cause I noticed
 that a recent update to the function run_command (used for running all
 shell commands, including "make mrproper") changed the internal loop to
 use the function wait_for_input. The wait_for_input uses select to look
 at two file descriptors. One is the file descriptor of the command it is
 running, the other is STDIN. The STDIN check was not checking the return
 status of the sysread call, and was also just writing a lot of data into
 syswrite without regard to the size of the data read.
 
 Changing the code to check the return status of sysread, and also to still
 process the passed in descriptor data without looping back to the select
 fixed Greg's problem.
 
 While looking at this code I also realized that the loop did not honor
 the timeout if STDIN always had input (or for some reason return error).
 this could prevent wait_for_input to timeout on the file descriptor it
 is suppose to be waiting for. That is fixed too.
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Merge tag 'ktest-v4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest

Pull ktest fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "Greg Kroah-Hartman reported to me that the ktest of v4.11-rc1 locked
  up in an infinite loop while doing the make mrproper.

  Looking into the cause I noticed that a recent update to the function
  run_command (used for running all shell commands, including "make
  mrproper") changed the internal loop to use the function
  wait_for_input.

  The wait_for_input function uses select to look at two file
  descriptors. One is the file descriptor of the command it is running,
  the other is STDIN. The STDIN check was not checking the return status
  of the sysread call, and was also just writing a lot of data into
  syswrite without regard to the size of the data read.

  Changing the code to check the return status of sysread, and also to
  still process the passed in descriptor data without looping back to
  the select fixed Greg's problem.

  While looking at this code I also realized that the loop did not honor
  the timeout if STDIN always had input (or for some reason return
  error). this could prevent wait_for_input to timeout on the file
  descriptor it is suppose to be waiting for. That is fixed too"

* tag 'ktest-v4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest:
  ktest: Make sure wait_for_input does honor the timeout
  ktest: Fix while loop in wait_for_input
2017-03-08 11:06:05 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-07 14:47:24 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-03 10:53:35 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-03-04 10:42:53 -08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-07 14:38:16 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-07 14:47:24 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs overlayfs: remove now unnecessary header file include 2017-03-08 10:42:13 -08:00
include sched/headers: fix up header file dependency on <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-08 10:36:03 -08:00
init sched/headers: Prepare to move _init() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/init.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:40 +01:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel sched/headers: fix up header file dependency on <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-08 10:36:03 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-07 14:33:11 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-04 17:31:39 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts There was some breakage with the changes for jump labels in the 4.11 merge 2017-03-07 09:37:28 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
tools Greg Kroah-Hartman reported to me that the ktest of v4.10 locked up in an 2017-03-08 11:06:05 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Second batch of KVM changes for 4.11 merge window 2017-03-04 11:36:19 -08:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-04 17:31:39 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc1 2017-03-05 12:59:56 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.