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Linus Torvalds dfd437a257 arm64 updates for 5.3:
- arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}
 
 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly
 
 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)
 
 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new XAFLAG
   and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)
 
 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)
 
 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic
 
 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms
 
 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP
 
 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers
 
 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent
 
 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups
 
 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)
 
 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the 'arm_boot_flags'
   introduced in 5.1)
 
 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig
 
 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area
 
 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
arch arm64 updates for 5.3: 2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix up placement of debugfs directory of queue files 2019-07-06 10:07:38 -06:00
certs treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-07-05 13:31:19 +09:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 5.3: 2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
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init initramfs: fix populate_initrd_image() section mismatch 2019-06-29 16:43:45 +08:00
ipc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
kernel arm64 updates for 5.3: 2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-07-05 13:31:19 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm arm64 updates for 5.3: 2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
net Two more quick bugfixes for nfsd, fixing a regression causing mount 2019-07-05 19:00:37 -07:00
samples samples: make pidfd-metadata fail gracefully on older kernels 2019-06-24 15:55:50 +02:00
scripts treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505 2019-06-19 17:11:22 +02:00
security SPDX update for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 09:58:42 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.2 2019-07-05 02:03:50 +09:00
tools KVM: nVMX: Change KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS to signal vmcs12 is copied from eVMCS 2019-07-02 19:02:45 +02:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt SPDX update for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 09:58:42 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS arm64 updates for 5.3: 2019-07-08 09:54:55 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.2 2019-07-07 15:41:56 -07:00
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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.