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Linus Torvalds 16b3d0cf5b Scheduler updates for this cycle are:
- Clean up SCHED_DEBUG: move the decades old mess of sysctl, procfs and debugfs interfaces
    to a unified debugfs interface.
 
  - Signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task, to improve performance & latencies.
 
  - Improve newidle_balance() irq-off latencies on systems with a large number of CPU cgroups.
 
  - Improve energy-aware scheduling
 
  - Improve the PELT metrics for certain workloads
 
  - Reintroduce select_idle_smt() to improve load-balancing locality - but without the previous
    regressions
 
  - Add 'scheduler latency debugging': warn after long periods of pending need_resched. This
    is an opt-in feature that requires the enabling of the LATENCY_WARN scheduler feature,
    or the use of the resched_latency_warn_ms=xx boot parameter.
 
  - CPU hotplug fixes for HP-rollback, and for the 'fail' interface. Fix remaining
    balance_push() vs. hotplug holes/races
 
  - PSI fixes, plus allow /proc/pressure/ files to be written by CAP_SYS_RESOURCE tasks as well
 
  - Fix/improve various load-balancing corner cases vs. capacity margins
 
  - Fix sched topology on systems with NUMA diameter of 3 or above
 
  - Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
 
  - Minor rseq optimizations
 
  - Misc cleanups, optimizations, fixes and smaller updates
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Clean up SCHED_DEBUG: move the decades old mess of sysctl, procfs and
   debugfs interfaces to a unified debugfs interface.

 - Signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task, to improve
   performance & latencies.

 - Improve newidle_balance() irq-off latencies on systems with a large
   number of CPU cgroups.

 - Improve energy-aware scheduling

 - Improve the PELT metrics for certain workloads

 - Reintroduce select_idle_smt() to improve load-balancing locality -
   but without the previous regressions

 - Add 'scheduler latency debugging': warn after long periods of pending
   need_resched. This is an opt-in feature that requires the enabling of
   the LATENCY_WARN scheduler feature, or the use of the
   resched_latency_warn_ms=xx boot parameter.

 - CPU hotplug fixes for HP-rollback, and for the 'fail' interface. Fix
   remaining balance_push() vs. hotplug holes/races

 - PSI fixes, plus allow /proc/pressure/ files to be written by
   CAP_SYS_RESOURCE tasks as well

 - Fix/improve various load-balancing corner cases vs. capacity margins

 - Fix sched topology on systems with NUMA diameter of 3 or above

 - Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race

 - Minor rseq optimizations

 - Misc cleanups, optimizations, fixes and smaller updates

* tag 'sched-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
  cpumask/hotplug: Fix cpu_dying() state tracking
  kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
  sched/debug: Fix cgroup_path[] serialization
  sched,psi: Handle potential task count underflow bugs more gracefully
  sched: Warn on long periods of pending need_resched
  sched/fair: Move update_nohz_stats() to the CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON block to simplify the code & fix an unused function warning
  sched/debug: Rename the sched_debug parameter to sched_verbose
  sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice()
  sched: Move /proc/sched_debug to debugfs
  sched,debug: Convert sysctl sched_domains to debugfs
  debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()
  sched,preempt: Move preempt_dynamic to debug.c
  sched: Move SCHED_DEBUG sysctl to debugfs
  sched: Don't make LATENCYTOP select SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Remove sched_schedstats sysctl out from under SCHED_DEBUG
  sched/numa: Allow runtime enabling/disabling of NUMA balance without SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Use cpu_dying() to fix balance_push vs hotplug-rollback
  cpumask: Introduce DYING mask
  cpumask: Make cpu_{online,possible,present,active}() inline
  rseq: Optimise rseq_get_rseq_cs() and clear_rseq_cs()
  ...
2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
arch Perf events changes in this cycle were: 2021-04-28 13:03:44 -07:00
block CFI on arm64 series for v5.13-rc1 2021-04-27 10:16:46 -07:00
certs certs: add 'x509_revocation_list' to gitignore 2021-04-26 10:48:07 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-04-26 08:51:23 -07:00
Documentation Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
drivers Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
fs Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
include Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
init Merge branch 'for-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2021-04-27 18:47:42 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
lib Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm RCU changes for this cycle were: 2021-04-28 12:00:13 -07:00
net Scheduler updates for this cycle are: 2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-03-09 17:15:56 -08:00
scripts drm for 5.13-rc1 2021-04-28 10:01:40 -07:00
security Miscellaneous minor fixes for v5.13. 2021-04-27 19:32:55 -07:00
sound TTY/Serial driver updates for 5.13-rc1 2021-04-26 11:20:10 -07:00
tools Perf events changes in this cycle were: 2021-04-28 13:03:44 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: x86/mmu: Consider the hva in mmu_notifier retry 2021-02-22 13:16:53 -05:00
.clang-format cxl for 5.12 2021-02-24 09:38:36 -08:00
.cocciconfig
.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 clang-lto series for v5.12-rc1 2021-02-23 09:28:51 -08:00
.mailmap It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than usually 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than usually 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -07:00
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 Locking changes for this cycle were: 2021-04-28 12:37:53 -07:00
Makefile CFI on arm64 series for v5.13-rc1 2021-04-27 10:16:46 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.