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Linus Torvalds 99ca0edb41 arm64 updates for 5.12
- vDSO build improvements including support for building with BSD.
 
  - Cleanup to the AMU support code and initialisation rework to support
    cpufreq drivers built as modules.
 
  - Removal of synthetic frame record from exception stack when entering
    the kernel from EL0.
 
  - Add support for the TRNG firmware call introduced by Arm spec
    DEN0098.
 
  - Cleanup and refactoring across the board.
 
  - Avoid calling arch_get_random_seed_long() from
    add_interrupt_randomness()
 
  - Perf and PMU updates including support for Cortex-A78 and the v8.3
    SPE extensions.
 
  - Significant steps along the road to leaving the MMU enabled during
    kexec relocation.
 
  - Faultaround changes to initialise prefaulted PTEs as 'old' when
    hardware access-flag updates are supported, which drastically
    improves vmscan performance.
 
  - CPU errata updates for Cortex-A76 (#1463225) and Cortex-A55
    (#1024718)
 
  - Preparatory work for yielding the vector unit at a finer granularity
    in the crypto code, which in turn will one day allow us to defer
    softirq processing when it is in use.
 
  - Support for overriding CPU ID register fields on the command-line.
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:

 - vDSO build improvements including support for building with BSD.

 - Cleanup to the AMU support code and initialisation rework to support
   cpufreq drivers built as modules.

 - Removal of synthetic frame record from exception stack when entering
   the kernel from EL0.

 - Add support for the TRNG firmware call introduced by Arm spec
   DEN0098.

 - Cleanup and refactoring across the board.

 - Avoid calling arch_get_random_seed_long() from
   add_interrupt_randomness()

 - Perf and PMU updates including support for Cortex-A78 and the v8.3
   SPE extensions.

 - Significant steps along the road to leaving the MMU enabled during
   kexec relocation.

 - Faultaround changes to initialise prefaulted PTEs as 'old' when
   hardware access-flag updates are supported, which drastically
   improves vmscan performance.

 - CPU errata updates for Cortex-A76 (#1463225) and Cortex-A55
   (#1024718)

 - Preparatory work for yielding the vector unit at a finer granularity
   in the crypto code, which in turn will one day allow us to defer
   softirq processing when it is in use.

 - Support for overriding CPU ID register fields on the command-line.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (85 commits)
  drivers/perf: Replace spin_lock_irqsave to spin_lock
  mm: filemap: Fix microblaze build failure with 'mmu_defconfig'
  arm64: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend on ld.bfd or ld.lld 13.0.0+
  arm64: cpufeatures: Allow disabling of Pointer Auth from the command-line
  arm64: Defer enabling pointer authentication on boot core
  arm64: cpufeatures: Allow disabling of BTI from the command-line
  arm64: Move "nokaslr" over to the early cpufeature infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Document HVC_VHE_RESTART stub hypercall
  arm64: Make kvm-arm.mode={nvhe, protected} an alias of id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0
  arm64: Add an aliasing facility for the idreg override
  arm64: Honor VHE being disabled from the command-line
  arm64: Allow ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1.VH to be overridden from the command line
  arm64: cpufeature: Add an early command-line cpufeature override facility
  arm64: Extract early FDT mapping from kaslr_early_init()
  arm64: cpufeature: Use IDreg override in __read_sysreg_by_encoding()
  arm64: cpufeature: Add global feature override facility
  arm64: Move SCTLR_EL1 initialisation to EL-agnostic code
  arm64: Simplify init_el2_state to be non-VHE only
  arm64: Move VHE-specific SPE setup to mutate_to_vhe()
  arm64: Drop early setting of MDSCR_EL2.TPMS
  ...
2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
arch arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
block for-5.12/block-2021-02-17 2021-02-21 11:02:48 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto X.509: Fix crash caused by NULL pointer 2021-01-20 11:33:51 -08:00
drivers arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
fs arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
include arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
init Scheduler updates for v5.12: 2021-02-21 12:35:04 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
kernel The performance event updates for v5.12 are: 2021-02-21 12:49:32 -08:00
lib Scheduler updates for v5.12: 2021-02-21 12:35:04 -08:00
mm arm64 updates for 5.12 2021-02-21 13:08:42 -08:00
net Highlights: 2021-02-21 10:22:20 -08:00
samples samples: bpf: Remove unneeded semicolon 2021-02-02 21:37:59 -08:00
scripts These are the v5.12 updates for the locking subsystem: 2021-02-21 12:12:01 -08:00
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usr arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support 2021-01-22 12:12:20 +05:30
virt KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.11, take #2 2021-01-25 18:52:01 -05:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

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.