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Linus Torvalds cab7076a18 For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is
primarily used for testing, but which can be useful on production
 systems when a scratch volume is being destroyed and the data on it
 doesn't need to be saved.  This found (and we fixed) a number of bugs
 with ext4's recovery to corrupted file system --- the bugs increased
 the amount of data that could be potentially lost, and in the case of
 the inline data feature, could cause the kernel to BUG.
 
 Also included are a number of other bug fixes, including in ext4's
 fscrypt, DAX, inline data support.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is
  primarily used for testing, but which can be useful on production
  systems when a scratch volume is being destroyed and the data on it
  doesn't need to be saved.

  This found (and we fixed) a number of bugs with ext4's recovery to
  corrupted file system --- the bugs increased the amount of data that
  could be potentially lost, and in the case of the inline data feature,
  could cause the kernel to BUG.

  Also included are a number of other bug fixes, including in ext4's
  fscrypt, DAX, inline data support"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (26 commits)
  ext4: rename EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN to EXT4_IOC_SHUTDOWN
  ext4: fix fencepost in s_first_meta_bg validation
  ext4: don't BUG when truncating encrypted inodes on the orphan list
  ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set
  ext4: fix stripe-unaligned allocations
  dax: assert that i_rwsem is held exclusive for writes
  ext4: fix DAX write locking
  ext4: add EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl
  ext4: add shutdown bit and check for it
  ext4: rename s_resize_flags to s_ext4_flags
  ext4: return EROFS if device is r/o and journal replay is needed
  ext4: preserve the needs_recovery flag when the journal is aborted
  jbd2: don't leak modified metadata buffers on an aborted journal
  ext4: fix inline data error paths
  ext4: move halfmd4 into hash.c directly
  ext4: fix use-after-iput when fscrypt contexts are inconsistent
  jbd2: fix use after free in kjournald2()
  ext4: fix data corruption in data=journal mode
  ext4: trim allocation requests to group size
  ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON in mb_find_extent()
  ...
2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
Documentation ACPI updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-20 17:55:15 -08:00
arch ACPI updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-20 17:55:15 -08:00
block cfq-iosched: don't call wbt_disable_default() with IRQs disabled 2017-02-16 08:02:06 -07:00
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
drivers Generic device properties framework updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-20 18:06:09 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is 2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
include For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is 2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
init Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 13:23:30 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Power management updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-20 17:41:31 -08:00
lib For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is 2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
mm mm/slub.c: fix random_seq offset destruction 2017-02-08 15:41:43 -08:00
net Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 13:23:30 -08:00
samples 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
scripts Merge branch 'pm-tools' 2017-02-20 14:26:34 +01:00
security Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 13:23:30 -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 ACPI updates for v4.11-rc1 2017-02-20 17:55:15 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +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
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Various cleanups for the file system encryption feature. 2017-02-20 18:22:31 -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

README

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.