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Linus Torvalds f9a705ad1c ARM:
- New page table code for both hypervisor and guest stage-2
 - Introduction of a new EL2-private host context
 - Allow EL2 to have its own private per-CPU variables
 - Support of PMU event filtering
 - Complete rework of the Spectre mitigation
 
 PPC:
 - Fix for running nested guests with in-kernel IRQ chip
 - Fix race condition causing occasional host hard lockup
 - Minor cleanups and bugfixes
 
 x86:
 - allow trapping unknown MSRs to userspace
 - allow userspace to force #GP on specific MSRs
 - INVPCID support on AMD
 - nested AMD cleanup, on demand allocation of nested SVM state
 - hide PV MSRs and hypercalls for features not enabled in CPUID
 - new test for MSR_IA32_TSC writes from host and guest
 - cleanups: MMU, CPUID, shared MSRs
 - LAPIC latency optimizations ad bugfixes
 
 For x86, also included in this pull request is a new alternative and
 (in the future) more scalable implementation of extended page tables
 that does not need a reverse map from guest physical addresses to
 host physical addresses.  For now it is disabled by default because
 it is still lacking a few of the existing MMU's bells and whistles.
 However it is a very solid piece of work and it is already available
 for people to hammer on it.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "For x86, there is a new alternative and (in the future) more scalable
  implementation of extended page tables that does not need a reverse
  map from guest physical addresses to host physical addresses.

  For now it is disabled by default because it is still lacking a few of
  the existing MMU's bells and whistles. However it is a very solid
  piece of work and it is already available for people to hammer on it.

  Other updates:

  ARM:
   - New page table code for both hypervisor and guest stage-2
   - Introduction of a new EL2-private host context
   - Allow EL2 to have its own private per-CPU variables
   - Support of PMU event filtering
   - Complete rework of the Spectre mitigation

  PPC:
   - Fix for running nested guests with in-kernel IRQ chip
   - Fix race condition causing occasional host hard lockup
   - Minor cleanups and bugfixes

  x86:
   - allow trapping unknown MSRs to userspace
   - allow userspace to force #GP on specific MSRs
   - INVPCID support on AMD
   - nested AMD cleanup, on demand allocation of nested SVM state
   - hide PV MSRs and hypercalls for features not enabled in CPUID
   - new test for MSR_IA32_TSC writes from host and guest
   - cleanups: MMU, CPUID, shared MSRs
   - LAPIC latency optimizations ad bugfixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (232 commits)
  kvm: x86/mmu: NX largepage recovery for TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Don't clear write flooding count for direct roots
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support write protection for nesting in tdp MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support disabling dirty logging for the tdp MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support changed pte notifier in tdp MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Add access tracking for tdp_mmu
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support invalidate range MMU notifier for TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Allocate struct kvm_mmu_pages for all pages in TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Add TDP MMU PF handler
  kvm: x86/mmu: Remove disallowed_hugepage_adjust shadow_walk_iterator arg
  kvm: x86/mmu: Support zapping SPTEs in the TDP MMU
  KVM: Cache as_id in kvm_memory_slot
  kvm: x86/mmu: Add functions to handle changed TDP SPTEs
  kvm: x86/mmu: Allocate and free TDP MMU roots
  kvm: x86/mmu: Init / Uninit the TDP MMU
  kvm: x86/mmu: Introduce tdp_iter
  KVM: mmu: extract spte.h and spte.c
  KVM: mmu: Separate updating a PTE from kvm_set_pte_rmapp
  ...
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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.