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Linus Torvalds a5ad5742f6 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge even more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a kernel-wide sweep of show_stack()

 - pagetable cleanups

 - abstract out accesses to mmap_sem - prep for mmap_sem scalability work

 - hch's user acess work

Subsystems affected by this patch series: debug, mm/pagemap, mm/maccess,
mm/documentation.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (93 commits)
  include/linux/cache.h: expand documentation over __read_mostly
  maccess: return -ERANGE when probe_kernel_read() fails
  x86: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  maccess: allow architectures to provide kernel probing directly
  maccess: move user access routines together
  maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read
  maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe
  tracing/kprobes: handle mixed kernel/userspace probes better
  bpf: rework the compat kernel probe handling
  bpf:bpf_seq_printf(): handle potentially unsafe format string better
  bpf: handle the compat string in bpf_trace_copy_string better
  bpf: factor out a bpf_trace_copy_string helper
  maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks
  maccess: remove probe_read_common and probe_write_common
  maccess: rename strnlen_unsafe_user to strnlen_user_nofault
  maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_strict to strncpy_from_kernel_nofault
  maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault
  maccess: update the top of file comment
  maccess: clarify kerneldoc comments
  maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments
  ...
2020-06-09 09:54:46 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-09 09:54:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-09 09:54:46 -07:00
block for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01 2020-06-02 15:37:03 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
drivers Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-09 09:54:46 -07:00
fs mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
include include/linux/cache.h: expand documentation over __read_mostly 2020-06-09 09:39:16 -07:00
init mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-06-09 09:54:46 -07:00
lib mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mm maccess: return -ERANGE when probe_kernel_read() fails 2020-06-09 09:39:16 -07:00
net mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem API comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.8 2020-06-06 12:00:25 -07:00
scripts Fix for arch/sh build regression with newer binutils, removal of SH5, 2020-06-06 15:22:01 -07:00
security mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
sound mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
tools kallsyms/printk: add loglvl to print_ip_sym() 2020-06-09 09:39:10 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
.mailmap A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS remoteproc updates for v5.8 2020-06-08 13:01:08 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.8 2020-06-06 12:00:25 -07:00
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.