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Linus Torvalds 499aa1ca4e dcache stuff for this cycle
change of locking rules for __dentry_kill(), regularized refcounting
 rules in that area, assorted cleanups and removal of weird corner
 cases (e.g. now ->d_iput() on child is always called before the parent
 might hit __dentry_kill(), etc.)
 
 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull dcache updates from Al Viro:
 "Change of locking rules for __dentry_kill(), regularized refcounting
  rules in that area, assorted cleanups and removal of weird corner
  cases (e.g. now ->d_iput() on child is always called before the parent
  might hit __dentry_kill(), etc)"

* tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  dcache: remove unnecessary NULL check in dget_dlock()
  kill DCACHE_MAY_FREE
  __d_unalias() doesn't use inode argument
  d_alloc_parallel(): in-lookup hash insertion doesn't need an RCU variant
  get rid of DCACHE_GENOCIDE
  d_genocide(): move the extern into fs/internal.h
  simple_fill_super(): don't bother with d_genocide() on failure
  nsfs: use d_make_root()
  d_alloc_pseudo(): move setting ->d_op there from the (sole) caller
  kill d_instantate_anon(), fold __d_instantiate_anon() into remaining caller
  retain_dentry(): introduce a trimmed-down lockless variant
  __dentry_kill(): new locking scheme
  d_prune_aliases(): use a shrink list
  switch select_collect{,2}() to use of to_shrink_list()
  to_shrink_list(): call only if refcount is 0
  fold dentry_kill() into dput()
  don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry()
  fold the call of retain_dentry() into fast_dput()
  Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0
  dentry_kill(): don't bother with retain_dentry() on slow path
  ...
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Documentation dcache stuff for this cycle 2024-01-11 20:11:35 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
arch dcache stuff for this cycle 2024-01-11 20:11:35 -08:00
block for-6.8/block-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 13:58:04 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2023-12-29 11:25:56 +08:00
drivers Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
fs dcache stuff for this cycle 2024-01-11 20:11:35 -08:00
include dcache stuff for this cycle 2024-01-11 20:11:35 -08:00
init header cleanups for 6.8 2024-01-10 16:43:55 -08:00
io_uring for-6.8/io_uring-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 14:19:23 -08:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel dma-mapping updates for Linux 6.8 2024-01-11 13:46:50 -08:00
lib Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
mm Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
net for-6.8/io_uring-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 14:19:23 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
scripts Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
security for-6.8/io_uring-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 14:19:23 -08:00
sound SoC: driver updates for 6.8 2024-01-11 11:31:46 -08:00
tools Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
usr usr/Kconfig: fix typos of "its" 2023-12-20 15:02:58 -08:00
virt vfs-6.8.misc 2024-01-08 10:26:08 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's `for_each` macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
Makefile Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
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.