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Linus Torvalds 9ba19ccd2d These were the main changes in this cycle:
- LKMM updates: mostly documentation changes, but also some new litmus tests for atomic ops.
 
  - KCSAN updates: the most important change is that GCC 11 now has all fixes in place
                   to support KCSAN, so GCC support can be enabled again. Also more annotations.
 
  - futex updates: minor cleanups and simplifications
 
  - seqlock updates: merge preparatory changes/cleanups for the 'associated locks' facilities.
 
  - lockdep updates:
     - simplify IRQ trace event handling
     - add various new debug checks
     - simplify header dependencies, split out <linux/lockdep_types.h>, decouple
       lockdep from other low level headers some more
     - fix NMI handling
 
  - misc cleanups and smaller fixes
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - LKMM updates: mostly documentation changes, but also some new litmus
   tests for atomic ops.

 - KCSAN updates: the most important change is that GCC 11 now has all
   fixes in place to support KCSAN, so GCC support can be enabled again.
   Also more annotations.

 - futex updates: minor cleanups and simplifications

 - seqlock updates: merge preparatory changes/cleanups for the
   'associated locks' facilities.

 - lockdep updates:
    - simplify IRQ trace event handling
    - add various new debug checks
    - simplify header dependencies, split out <linux/lockdep_types.h>,
      decouple lockdep from other low level headers some more
    - fix NMI handling

 - misc cleanups and smaller fixes

* tag 'locking-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  kcsan: Improve IRQ state trace reporting
  lockdep: Refactor IRQ trace events fields into struct
  seqlock: lockdep assert non-preemptibility on seqcount_t write
  lockdep: Add preemption enabled/disabled assertion APIs
  seqlock: Implement raw_seqcount_begin() in terms of raw_read_seqcount()
  seqlock: Add kernel-doc for seqcount_t and seqlock_t APIs
  seqlock: Reorder seqcount_t and seqlock_t API definitions
  seqlock: seqcount_t latch: End read sections with read_seqcount_retry()
  seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples
  Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage
  locking/qspinlock: Do not include atomic.h from qspinlock_types.h
  locking/atomic: Move ATOMIC_INIT into linux/types.h
  lockdep: Move list.h inclusion into lockdep.h
  locking/lockdep: Fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS vs. NMIs
  futex: Remove unused or redundant includes
  futex: Consistently use fshared as boolean
  futex: Remove needless goto's
  futex: Remove put_futex_key()
  rwsem: fix commas in initialisation
  docs: locking: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  ...
2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
arch These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
block for-5.9/io_uring-20200802 2020-08-03 13:01:22 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-03 10:40:14 -07:00
Documentation These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
drivers Fix a recent IRQ affinities regression, add in a missing debugfs printout 2020-08-03 14:21:52 -07:00
fs These are the latest RCU bits for v5.9: 2020-08-03 14:31:33 -07:00
include These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
init kbuild: fix CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK(_STATIC) for cross-compilation with Clang 2020-07-02 00:57:45 +09:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
lib These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm These are the latest RCU bits for v5.9: 2020-08-03 14:31:33 -07:00
net These are the latest RCU bits for v5.9: 2020-08-03 14:31:33 -07:00
samples samples/vfs: avoid warning in statx override 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
scripts These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
security for-5.9/block-20200802 2020-08-03 11:57:03 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-03 10:40:14 -07:00
tools These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt kvm: use more precise cast and do not drop __user 2020-07-02 05:39:31 -04:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.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 .gitignore: Do not track defconfig from make savedefconfig 2020-07-05 16:15:46 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Mike Rapoport 2020-07-24 12:42:41 -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 These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8 2020-08-02 14:21:45 -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.