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Linus Torvalds 89261c5702 Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes
include:
 
  - Syscall tables & definitions for unistd.h are now generated by
    scripts, providing greater consistency with other architectures &
    making it easier to add new syscalls.
 
  - Support for building kernels with no floating point support, upon
    which any userland attempting to use floating point instructions will
    receive a SIGILL. Mostly useful to shrink the kernel & as preparation
    for nanoMIPS support which does not yet include FP.
 
  - MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) vector register context is now exposed
    by ptrace via a new NT_MIPS_MSA regset.
 
  - ASIDs are now stored as 64b values even for MIPS32 kernels, expanding
    the ASID version field sufficiently that we don't need to worry about
    overflow & avoiding rare issues with reused ASIDs that have been
    observed in the wild.
 
  - The branch delay slot "emulation" page is now mapped without write
    permission for the user, preventing its use as a nice location for
    attacks to execute malicious code from.
 
  - Support for ioremap_prot(), primarily to allow gdb or other
    ptrace users the ability to view their tracee's memory using the same
    cache coherency attribute.
 
  - Optimizations to more cpu_has_* macros, allowing more to be
    compile-time constant where possible.
 
  - Enable building the whole kernel with UBSAN instrumentation.
 
  - Enable building the kernel with link-time dead code & data
    elimination.
 
 Platform specific changes include:
 
  - The Boston board gains a workaround for DMA prefetching issues with
    the EG20T Platform Controller Hub that it uses.
 
  - Cleanups to Cavium Octeon code removing about 20k lines of redundant
    code, mostly unused or duplicate register definitions in headers.
 
  - defconfig updates for the DECstation machines, including new
    defconfigs for r4k & 64b machines.
 
  - Further work on Loongson 3 support.
 
  - DMA fixes for SiByte machines.
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Merge tag 'mips_4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux

Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
 "Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes
  include:

   - Syscall tables & definitions for unistd.h are now generated by
     scripts, providing greater consistency with other architectures &
     making it easier to add new syscalls.

   - Support for building kernels with no floating point support, upon
     which any userland attempting to use floating point instructions
     will receive a SIGILL. Mostly useful to shrink the kernel & as
     preparation for nanoMIPS support which does not yet include FP.

   - MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) vector register context is now exposed
     by ptrace via a new NT_MIPS_MSA regset.

   - ASIDs are now stored as 64b values even for MIPS32 kernels,
     expanding the ASID version field sufficiently that we don't need to
     worry about overflow & avoiding rare issues with reused ASIDs that
     have been observed in the wild.

   - The branch delay slot "emulation" page is now mapped without write
     permission for the user, preventing its use as a nice location for
     attacks to execute malicious code from.

   - Support for ioremap_prot(), primarily to allow gdb or other ptrace
     users the ability to view their tracee's memory using the same
     cache coherency attribute.

   - Optimizations to more cpu_has_* macros, allowing more to be
     compile-time constant where possible.

   - Enable building the whole kernel with UBSAN instrumentation.

   - Enable building the kernel with link-time dead code & data
     elimination.

  Platform specific changes include:

   - The Boston board gains a workaround for DMA prefetching issues with
     the EG20T Platform Controller Hub that it uses.

   - Cleanups to Cavium Octeon code removing about 20k lines of
     redundant code, mostly unused or duplicate register definitions in
     headers.

   - defconfig updates for the DECstation machines, including new
     defconfigs for r4k & 64b machines.

   - Further work on Loongson 3 support.

   - DMA fixes for SiByte machines"

* tag 'mips_4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (95 commits)
  MIPS: math-emu: Write-protect delay slot emulation pages
  MIPS: Remove struct mm_context_t fp_mode_switching field
  mips: generate uapi header and system call table files
  mips: add system call table generation support
  mips: remove syscall table entries
  mips: add +1 to __NR_syscalls in uapi header
  mips: rename scall64-64.S to scall64-n64.S
  mips: remove unused macros
  mips: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_Linux_syscalls
  MIPS: Expand MIPS32 ASIDs to 64 bits
  MIPS: OCTEON: delete redundant register definitions
  MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_gmxx_inf_mode: use oldest forward compatible definition
  MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_mio_fus_dat3: use oldest forward compatible definition
  MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_pko_mem_debug8: use oldest forward compatible definition
  MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use common gpio_bit definition
  MIPS: OCTEON: enable all OCTEON drivers in defconfig
  mips: annotate implicit fall throughs
  MIPS: Hardcode cpu_has_mips* where target ISA allows
  MIPS: MT: Remove norps command line parameter
  MIPS: Only include mmzone.h when CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y
  ...
2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
arch Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes 2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
block block: Fix null_blk_zoned creation failure with small number of zones 2018-12-11 16:19:38 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Disable statistics interface 2018-12-07 13:56:08 +08:00
Documentation Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes 2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
drivers Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes 2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
firmware
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next 2018-12-26 10:32:18 -08:00
include Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes 2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
init psi: fix reference to kernel commandline enable 2018-12-14 15:05:45 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel arm64 festive updates for 4.21 2018-12-25 17:41:56 -08:00
lib Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes 2018-12-26 10:45:33 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm arm64 festive updates for 4.21 2018-12-25 17:41:56 -08:00
net tls: Do not call sk_memcopy_from_iter with zero length 2018-12-21 10:26:54 -08:00
samples media: v4l2-pci-skeleton: replace vb2_buffer with vb2_v4l2_buffer 2018-12-03 14:41:51 -05:00
scripts drm pull request for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-25 11:48:26 -08:00
security ima: cleanup the match_token policy code 2018-12-17 16:31:28 -08:00
sound Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next 2018-12-26 10:32:18 -08:00
tools ACPI updates for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-25 14:21:18 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt arm64 festive updates for 4.21 2018-12-25 17:41:56 -08:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
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.mailmap Merge tag 'nand/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next 2018-12-18 19:59:16 +01:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-12-25 15:17:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20 2018-12-23 15:55:59 -08:00
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.