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Linus Torvalds e813e65038 ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes
PPC: Bugfixes
 
 x86:
 * Support for mapping DAX areas with large nested page table entries.
 * Cleanups and bugfixes here too.  A particularly important one is
 a fix for FPU load when the thread has TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD.  There is
 also a race condition which could be used in guest userspace to exploit
 the guest kernel, for which the embargo expired today.
 * Fast path for IPI delivery vmexits, shaving about 200 clock cycles
 from IPI latency.
 * Protect against "Spectre-v1/L1TF" (bring data in the cache via
 speculative out of bound accesses, use L1TF on the sibling hyperthread
 to read it), which unfortunately is an even bigger whack-a-mole game
 than SpectreV1.
 
 Sean continues his mission to rewrite KVM.  In addition to a sizable
 number of x86 patches, this time he contributed a pretty large refactoring
 of vCPU creation that affects all architectures but should not have any
 visible effect.
 
 s390 will come next week together with some more x86 patches.
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Merge tag 'kvm-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This is the first batch of KVM changes.

  ARM:
   - cleanups and corner case fixes.

  PPC:
   - Bugfixes

  x86:
   - Support for mapping DAX areas with large nested page table entries.

   - Cleanups and bugfixes here too. A particularly important one is a
     fix for FPU load when the thread has TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. There is
     also a race condition which could be used in guest userspace to
     exploit the guest kernel, for which the embargo expired today.

   - Fast path for IPI delivery vmexits, shaving about 200 clock cycles
     from IPI latency.

   - Protect against "Spectre-v1/L1TF" (bring data in the cache via
     speculative out of bound accesses, use L1TF on the sibling
     hyperthread to read it), which unfortunately is an even bigger
     whack-a-mole game than SpectreV1.

  Sean continues his mission to rewrite KVM. In addition to a sizable
  number of x86 patches, this time he contributed a pretty large
  refactoring of vCPU creation that affects all architectures but should
  not have any visible effect.

  s390 will come next week together with some more x86 patches"

* tag 'kvm-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  x86/KVM: Clean up host's steal time structure
  x86/KVM: Make sure KVM_VCPU_FLUSH_TLB flag is not missed
  x86/kvm: Cache gfn to pfn translation
  x86/kvm: Introduce kvm_(un)map_gfn()
  x86/kvm: Be careful not to clear KVM_VCPU_FLUSH_TLB bit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix -Werror=return-type build failure
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Release lock on page-out failure path
  KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer
  KVM: arm64: pmu: Only handle supported event counters
  KVM: arm64: pmu: Fix chained SW_INCR counters
  KVM: arm64: pmu: Don't mark a counter as chained if the odd one is disabled
  KVM: arm64: pmu: Don't increment SW_INCR if PMCR.E is unset
  KVM: x86: Use a typedef for fastop functions
  KVM: X86: Add 'else' to unify fastop and execute call path
  KVM: x86: inline memslot_valid_for_gpte
  KVM: x86/mmu: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
  KVM: x86/mmu: Remove lpage_is_disallowed() check from set_spte()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Fold max_mapping_level() into kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Zap any compound page when collapsing sptes
  KVM: x86/mmu: Remove obsolete gfn restoration in FNAME(fetch)
  ...
2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
arch ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes 2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
block SCSI misc on 20200129 2020-01-29 18:16:16 -08:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-01-28 15:38:56 -08:00
Documentation ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes 2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
drivers MTD core 2020-01-30 15:46:02 -08:00
fs MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support. 2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
include ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes 2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
init Driver core changes for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-29 10:18:20 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel hmm related patches for 5.6 2020-01-29 19:56:50 -08:00
lib linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes 2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-30 07:42:00 -08:00
samples drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
scripts Devicetree updates for v5.6: 2020-01-30 07:47:58 -08:00
security linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
sound sound updates for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-28 16:26:57 -08:00
tools ARM: Cleanups and corner case fixes 2020-01-31 09:30:41 -08:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'cve-2019-3016' into kvm-next-5.6 2020-01-30 18:47:59 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +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 modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-01-28 15:38:56 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5 2020-01-26 16:23:03 -08:00
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.