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Linus Torvalds fd7e9a8834 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over
200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.
 
 * ARM:
 - GICv3 save/restore
 - cache flushing fixes
 - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
 - physical timer emulation
 
 * MIPS:
 - various improvements under the hood
 - support for SMP guests
 - a large rewrite of MMU emulation.  KVM MIPS can now use MMU notifiers
 to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking, swapping, ballooning
 and everything else.  KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is also supported, so that
 writes to some memory regions can be treated as MMIO.  The new MMU also
 paves the way for hardware virtualization support.
 
 * PPC:
 - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
 - resizable hashed page table
 - bugfixes.
 
 * s390: expose more features to the guest
 - more SIMD extensions
 - instruction execution protection
 - ESOP2
 
 * x86:
 - improved hashing in the MMU
 - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
 - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
 migration support of nested hypervisors
 - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
 - host-to-guest PTP support
 - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown in
 and some duct tape removed.
 - remove lazy FPU handling
 - optimizations of user-mode exits
 - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests
 
 * generic:
 - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on tsk->sighand->siglock
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
  over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.

  ARM:
   - GICv3 save/restore
   - cache flushing fixes
   - working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
   - physical timer emulation

  MIPS:
   - various improvements under the hood
   - support for SMP guests
   - a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
     notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
     swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
     also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
     treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
     virtualization support.

  PPC:
   - support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
   - resizable hashed page table
   - bugfixes.

  s390:
   - expose more features to the guest
   - more SIMD extensions
   - instruction execution protection
   - ESOP2

  x86:
   - improved hashing in the MMU
   - faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
   - some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
     migration support of nested hypervisors
   - expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
   - host-to-guest PTP support
   - refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
     in and some duct tape removed.
   - remove lazy FPU handling
   - optimizations of user-mode exits
   - optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests

  generic:
   - alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
     tsk->sighand->siglock"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
  x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
  x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
  KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
  x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
  x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
  x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
  x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
  x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
  x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
  kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
  KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
  KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
  KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
  KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
  KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache
  KVM: use separate generations for each address space
  ...
2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
arch 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over 2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
block for-4.11/linus-merge-signed 2017-02-21 10:57:33 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
Documentation 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over 2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
drivers 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over 2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Changes since last update: 2017-02-22 18:05:23 -08:00
include 4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little over 2017-02-22 18:22:53 -08:00
init Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-02-22 17:33:34 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-02-22 18:08:50 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-02-22 17:33:34 -08:00
mm arm64 updates for 4.11: 2017-02-22 10:46:44 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
scripts char/misc driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:38:22 -08:00
security driver core patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:44:32 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - adding a new NV HDMI/DP codec ID in the driver 2017-02-09 08:57:47 +01:00
tools staging/iio driver patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 12:14:01 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log() 2017-02-17 12:30:14 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove old e-mail address 2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
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 branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-02-22 17:33:34 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 12:21:13 -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.