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Linus Torvalds 50b8b3f85a This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4:
* Direct I/O via iomap (required the iomap-for-next branch from Darrick
    as a prereq).
  * Support for using dioread-nolock where the block size < page size.
  * Support for encryption for file systems where the block size < page size.
  * Rework of journal credits handling so a revoke-heavy workload will
    not cause the journal to run out of space.
  * Replace bit-spinlocks with spinlocks in jbd2
 
 Also included were some bug fixes and cleanups, mostly to clean up
 corner cases from fuzzed file systems and error path handling.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4:

   - Direct I/O via iomap (required the iomap-for-next branch from
     Darrick as a prereq).

   - Support for using dioread-nolock where the block size < page size.

   - Support for encryption for file systems where the block size < page
     size.

   - Rework of journal credits handling so a revoke-heavy workload will
     not cause the journal to run out of space.

   - Replace bit-spinlocks with spinlocks in jbd2

  Also included were some bug fixes and cleanups, mostly to clean up
  corner cases from fuzzed file systems and error path handling"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (59 commits)
  ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
  ext4: add more paranoia checking in ext4_expand_extra_isize handling
  jbd2: make jbd2_handle_buffer_credits() handle reserved handles
  ext4: fix a bug in ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit
  ext4: bio_alloc with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM never fails
  ext4: code cleanup for get_next_id
  ext4: fix leak of quota reservations
  ext4: remove unused variable warning in parse_options()
  ext4: Enable encryption for subpage-sized blocks
  fs/buffer.c: support fscrypt in block_read_full_page()
  ext4: Add error handling for io_end_vec struct allocation
  jbd2: Fine tune estimate of necessary descriptor blocks
  jbd2: Provide trace event for handle restarts
  ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks
  jbd2: Make credit checking more strict
  jbd2: Rename h_buffer_credits to h_total_credits
  jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks
  jbd2: Drop jbd2_space_needed()
  jbd2: Account descriptor blocks into t_outstanding_credits
  jbd2: Factor out common parts of stopping and restarting a handle
  ...
2019-11-30 10:53:02 -08:00
arch dma-mapping updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-28 11:16:43 -08:00
block for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122 2019-11-25 11:37:01 -08:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-11-25 19:49:58 -08:00
Documentation This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4: 2019-11-30 10:53:02 -08:00
drivers hmm related patches for 5.5 2019-11-30 10:33:14 -08:00
fs This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4: 2019-11-30 10:53:02 -08:00
include This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4: 2019-11-30 10:53:02 -08:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-11-25 20:02:57 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel hmm related patches for 5.5 2019-11-30 10:33:14 -08:00
lib generic ioremap support 2019-11-28 10:57:12 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm hmm related patches for 5.5 2019-11-30 10:33:14 -08:00
net for-5.5/io_uring-post-20191128 2019-11-28 10:43:39 -08:00
samples New tracing features: 2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
scripts Device properties framework updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-26 19:45:12 -08:00
security drm main pull for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 17:45:48 -08:00
sound sound updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-26 20:04:35 -08:00
tools New tracing features: 2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix jump label out_free_* in kvm_init() 2019-11-23 11:29:17 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 14:52:11 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
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 main pull for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 17:45:48 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.4 2019-11-24 16:32:01 -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.