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Linus Torvalds 2d338201d5 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...
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Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-09-05 2021-09-06 10:06:26 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
include Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
net Networking stragglers and fixes for 5.15-rc1, including changes from netfilter, 2021-09-07 14:02:58 -07:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid() 2021-09-06 08:23:46 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +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 .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -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 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-08 12:55:35 -07:00
Makefile Makefile: use -Wno-main in the full kernel tree 2021-09-08 09:44:42 -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.