linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation
Linus Torvalds b0c79f49c3 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...
2017-09-04 09:52:57 -07:00
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ABI MTD updates for v4.13-rc1: 2017-07-13 12:07:44 -07:00
accounting
acpi This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.13 series: 2017-07-07 12:40:27 -07:00
admin-guide Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-08-21 09:45:19 +02:00
aoe
arm Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol 2017-07-17 13:43:58 -06:00
arm64 IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.13 2017-07-12 10:00:04 -07:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block bio-integrity: fold bio_integrity_enabled to bio_integrity_prep 2017-07-03 16:56:24 -06:00
blockdev remove the mg_disk driver 2017-04-14 14:00:49 -06:00
bus-devices
cdrom cdrom: Make device operations read-only 2017-02-14 08:29:56 -07:00
cgroup-v1 mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 08:13:52 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface 2017-05-14 02:06:03 +02:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto KEYS: Add documentation for asymmetric keyring restrictions 2017-07-14 11:01:38 +10:00
dev-tools docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel 2017-07-17 14:49:01 -06:00
device-mapper dm raid: bump target version 2017-07-25 14:54:20 -04:00
devicetree hwmon updates for v4.14 2017-09-03 18:43:20 -07:00
dmaengine
doc-guide sphinx.rst: Allow Sphinx version 1.6 at the docs 2017-08-26 15:50:27 -06:00
driver-api docs: driver-api: Remove trailing blank line 2017-08-07 14:27:45 -06:00
driver-model pci-v4.13-changes 2017-07-08 15:51:57 -07:00
early-userspace Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org 2017-03-29 15:46:06 -06:00
EDID drm: use .hword to represent 16-bit numbers 2017-03-30 10:15:19 +02:00
extcon extcon: Remove porting compatibility of swich class 2017-04-06 10:55:24 +09:00
fault-injection fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth 2017-07-14 15:05:13 -07:00
fb efifb: allow user to disable write combined mapping. 2017-07-31 18:45:41 +02:00
features docs/features: parisc implements tracehook 2017-08-07 14:18:40 -06:00
filesystems swap: Remove obsolete sentence 2017-08-26 15:55:38 -06:00
firmware_class firmware: revamp firmware documentation 2017-01-11 09:42:59 +01:00
fmc
fpga fpga: Add scatterlist based programming 2017-02-10 15:20:44 +01:00
frv
gpio pinctrl: generic: update references to Documentation/pinctrl.txt 2017-08-07 15:26:34 +02:00
gpu Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-08-18' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel into drm-next 2017-08-22 10:03:07 +10:00
hid Documentation: hid: fix path to input bus definitions 2017-03-13 17:15:19 -06:00
hwmon hwmon: (pmbus/lm25066) Add support for TI LM5066I 2017-08-30 06:31:13 -07:00
i2c i2c: i801: Add support for Intel Cannon Lake 2017-06-19 16:17:41 +02:00
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband Documentation: Hardware tag matching 2017-08-29 08:30:21 -04:00
input Documentation:input: fix typo 2017-08-30 15:18:24 -06:00
ioctl scsi: cxlflash: Introduce host ioctl support 2017-06-26 15:01:11 -04:00
isdn
kbuild kbuild: Update example for ccflags-y usage 2017-08-07 14:24:28 -06:00
kdump kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
kernel-hacking There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time 2017-07-03 21:13:25 -07:00
laptops platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support for X1 Yoga (2016) Tablet Mode 2016-12-13 09:29:06 -08:00
leds Documentaion: leds: leds-lp55xx.txt: Fix typos 2017-03-17 13:06:14 -06:00
lightnvm lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target 2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00
livepatch livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch 2017-03-08 09:38:43 +01:00
locking rtmutex: update rt-mutex 2017-08-24 13:38:14 -06:00
m68k
md Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-05-03 10:05:38 -07:00
media Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2017-09-03 21:07:29 -07:00
memory-devices
metag
mic
mips
misc-devices Documentation: misc-devices: Add Documentation for pci-endpoint-test driver 2017-04-28 10:23:19 -05:00
mmc MMC core: 2017-05-02 17:34:32 -07:00
mn10300
mtd spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller 2017-01-03 17:33:36 +00:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2017-09-03 21:07:29 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem NVMEM documentation fix: A minor typo 2017-08-24 13:31:58 -06:00
parisc
PCI docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
pcmcia
perf perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver 2017-04-03 18:53:50 +01:00
phy
platform
power PM / runtime: Document new pm_runtime_set_suspended() constraint 2017-07-27 23:57:40 +02:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 4.13 2017-07-07 13:55:45 -07:00
pps Doc: clarify source of jitter in USB1.1, and USB2.0 2017-01-04 14:40:52 -07:00
process docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rst 2017-08-30 15:25:30 -06:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
RCU doc: Set down RCU's scheduling-clock-interrupt needs 2017-08-17 07:31:14 -07:00
s390 docs: add documentation for vfio-ccw 2017-03-31 12:55:11 +02:00
scheduler sched/deadline: Add documentation about GRUB reclaiming 2017-06-08 10:31:56 +02:00
scsi scsi: make asynchronous aborts mandatory 2017-04-06 13:07:33 -04:00
security docs: ReSTify table of contents in core.rst 2017-08-30 15:27:58 -06:00
serial tty: n_gsm: do not send/receive in ldisc close path 2017-06-03 18:48:52 +09:00
sh docs-rst: convert sh book to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:18 -03:00
sound sound updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-06 10:56:51 -07:00
sparc Documentation/sparc: Steps for sending break on sunhv console 2017-02-23 08:27:25 -08:00
sphinx Documentation/sphinx: fix kernel-doc decode for non-utf-8 locale 2017-08-31 13:36:28 -06:00
sphinx-static docs RTD theme: code-block with line nos - lines and line numbers don't line up. 2017-07-17 13:48:45 -06:00
spi spi: Document SPI slave controller support 2017-05-26 13:11:00 +01:00
sysctl perf/core improvements and fixes: 2017-08-24 10:12:59 +02:00
target Documentation/target: add an example script to configure an iSCSI target 2017-05-01 22:21:35 -07:00
thermal Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2017-05-12 11:58:45 -07:00
timers rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options 2017-06-08 18:52:43 -07:00
trace A few more minor updates: 2017-07-13 13:17:19 -07:00
translations docs: Makefile: remove no-ops targets 2017-07-23 15:50:48 -06:00
usb usb: gadget: add f_uac1 variant based on a new u_audio api 2017-06-19 09:22:47 +03:00
userspace-api doc: ReSTify no_new_privs.txt 2017-05-18 10:30:09 -06:00
virtual kvm: x86: hyperv: make VP_INDEX managed by userspace 2017-07-14 16:28:18 +02:00
vm ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
w1 w1: add documentation for w1_ds2438 2017-03-17 15:10:49 +09:00
watchdog watchdog: uniphier: add UniPhier watchdog driver 2017-07-03 13:58:55 +02:00
wimax
x86 x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder 2017-07-26 13:18:20 +02:00
xtensa of: update ePAPR references to point to Devicetree Specification 2017-06-22 11:22:06 -05:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update 2017-07-07 14:04:47 -07:00
bcache.txt bcache.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bt8xxgpio.txt bt8xxgpio.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
btmrvl.txt btmrvl.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cachetlb.txt cachetlb.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup-v2.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:13 -06:00
Changes docs: add back 'Documentation/Changes' file (as symlink) 2016-12-14 16:30:12 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt circular-buffers.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
clk.txt clk.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
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conf.py docs-rst: fix verbatim font size on tables 2017-08-26 15:50:20 -06:00
cpu-load.txt cpu-load: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
cputopology.txt cputopology.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
crc32.txt crc32.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
dcdbas.txt dcdbas.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
dell_rbu.txt dell_rbu.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:12 -06:00
digsig.txt digsig.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:32 -06:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:32 -06:00
DMA-attributes.txt DMA-attributes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt DMA-ISA-LPC.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
docutils.conf
dontdiff GCC plugin updates: 2017-07-05 11:46:59 -07:00
efi-stub.txt efi-stub.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
eisa.txt eisa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
flexible-arrays.txt flexible-arrays.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex-requeue-pi.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
gcc-plugins.txt gcc-plugins.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
highuid.txt highuid.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
hw_random.txt hw_random.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
hwspinlock.txt hwspinlock.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
index.rst Make the main documentation title less Geocities 2017-06-23 14:02:27 -06:00
intel_txt.txt intel_txt.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt Intel-IOMMU.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
io_ordering.txt io_ordering.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:39 -06:00
io-mapping.txt io-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
iostats.txt iostats.txt: update it to cover recent Kernels 2017-07-14 13:51:40 -06:00
IPMI.txt IPMI.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:40 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt IRQ-affinity.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ-domain.txt IRQ-domain.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ.txt IRQ.txt: add a markup for its title 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
irqflags-tracing.txt irqflags-tracing.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
isa.txt isa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
isapnp.txt isapnp.txt: promote title level 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kobject.txt kobject.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:44 -06:00
kprobes.txt docs: kprobes.txt: Fix whitespacing 2017-07-14 13:58:14 -06:00
kref.txt kref.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
ldm.txt ldm.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt lockup-watchdogs.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
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lsm.txt docs-rst: convert lsm from DocBook to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
lzo.txt lzo.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
mailbox.txt mailbox.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:47 -06:00
Makefile doc: Makefile: if sphinx is not found, run a check script 2017-08-24 13:18:30 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt doc: Update memory-barriers.txt for read-to-write dependencies 2017-08-17 07:29:57 -07:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:53 -06:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt men-chameleon-bus.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:54 -06:00
nommu-mmap.txt nommu-mmap.txt: don't use all upper case on titles 2017-07-14 13:57:55 -06:00
ntb.txt This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format 2017-07-15 12:58:58 -07:00
numastat.txt numastat.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
padata.txt padata.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
parport-lowlevel.txt parport-lowlevel.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:57 -06:00
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt percpu-rw-semaphore.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
phy.txt phy.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
pi-futex.txt pi-futex.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:59 -06:00
pnp.txt pnp.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:59 -06:00
preempt-locking.txt preempt-locking.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:00 -06:00
printk-formats.txt printk-formats.txt: Better describe the difference between %pS and %pF 2017-08-16 21:09:45 +02:00
pwm.txt pwm: Standardize document format 2017-07-06 08:23:30 +02:00
rbtree.txt rbtree.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:01 -06:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
rfkill.txt rfkill.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt robust-futex-ABI.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
robust-futexes.txt robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
rpmsg.txt rpmsg.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
rtc.txt rtc: add generic nvmem support 2017-07-07 13:14:14 +02:00
SAK.txt SAK.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
sgi-ioc4.txt sgi-ioc4.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:05 -06:00
siphash.txt siphash.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
SM501.txt SM501.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
smsc_ece1099.txt smsc_ece1099.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:07 -06:00
static-keys.txt static-keys.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:07 -06:00
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt svga.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:08 -06:00
switchtec.txt switchtec: Add IOCTLs to the Switchtec driver 2017-04-12 12:23:37 -05:00
sync_file.txt sync_file.txt: standardize document format 2017-05-24 13:01:27 -03:00
tee.txt tee.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:14 -06:00
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unaligned-memory-access.txt unaligned-memory-access.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:09 -06:00
vfio-mediated-device.txt vfio-mediated-device.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:10 -06:00
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video-output.txt
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