Notable changes:
- A fix for a bug in our page table fragment allocator, where a page table page
could be freed and reallocated for something else while still in use, leading
to memory corruption etc. The fix reuses pt_mm in struct page (x86 only) for
a powerpc only refcount.
- Fixes to our pkey support. Several are user-visible changes, but bring us in
to line with x86 behaviour and/or fix outright bugs. Thanks to Florian Weimer
for reporting many of these.
- A series to improve the hvc driver & related OPAL console code, which have
been seen to cause hardlockups at times. The hvc driver changes in particular
have been in linux-next for ~month.
- Increase our MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y.
- Remove Power8 DD1 and Power9 DD1 support, neither chip should be in use
anywhere other than as a paper weight.
- An optimised memcmp implementation using Power7-or-later VMX instructions
- Support for barrier_nospec on some NXP CPUs.
- Support for flushing the count cache on context switch on some IBM CPUs
(controlled by firmware), as a Spectre v2 mitigation.
- A series to enhance the information we print on unhandled signals to bring it
into line with other arches, including showing the offending VMA and dumping
the instructions around the fault.
Thanks to:
Aaro Koskinen, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alexey
Spirkov, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar,
Arnd Bergmann, Bartosz Golaszewski, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharat Bhushan,
Bjoern Noetel, Boqun Feng, Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Camelia Groza,
Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Cyril Bur, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Klamt,
Darren Stevens, Dave Young, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Finn Thain, Florian
Weimer, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geoff Levand,
Guenter Roeck, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus
Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues, Michael Hanselmann, Michael
Neuling, Michael Schmitz, Mukesh Ojha, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nicholas
Piggin, Parth Y Shah, Paul Mackerras, Paul Menzel, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap,
Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab, Rodrigo R. Galvao, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff,
Scott Wood, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo, Souptick Joarder, Stan Johnson,
Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Venkat Rao
B, zhong jiang.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- A fix for a bug in our page table fragment allocator, where a page
table page could be freed and reallocated for something else while
still in use, leading to memory corruption etc. The fix reuses
pt_mm in struct page (x86 only) for a powerpc only refcount.
- Fixes to our pkey support. Several are user-visible changes, but
bring us in to line with x86 behaviour and/or fix outright bugs.
Thanks to Florian Weimer for reporting many of these.
- A series to improve the hvc driver & related OPAL console code,
which have been seen to cause hardlockups at times. The hvc driver
changes in particular have been in linux-next for ~month.
- Increase our MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y.
- Remove Power8 DD1 and Power9 DD1 support, neither chip should be in
use anywhere other than as a paper weight.
- An optimised memcmp implementation using Power7-or-later VMX
instructions
- Support for barrier_nospec on some NXP CPUs.
- Support for flushing the count cache on context switch on some IBM
CPUs (controlled by firmware), as a Spectre v2 mitigation.
- A series to enhance the information we print on unhandled signals
to bring it into line with other arches, including showing the
offending VMA and dumping the instructions around the fault.
Thanks to: Aaro Koskinen, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alexey Spirkov, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd Bergmann, Bartosz Golaszewski,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharat Bhushan, Bjoern Noetel, Boqun Feng,
Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Camelia Groza, Christophe Leroy, Christoph
Hellwig, Cyril Bur, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Klamt, Darren Stevens, Dave
Young, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Finn Thain, Florian Weimer,
Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geoff Levand,
Guenter Roeck, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel
Stanley, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Michael Schmitz, Mukesh Ojha,
Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nicholas Piggin, Parth Y Shah, Paul
Mackerras, Paul Menzel, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap, Rashmica Gupta, Reza
Arbab, Rodrigo R. Galvao, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Scott Wood,
Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo, Souptick Joarder, Stan Johnson, Thiago
Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Venkat
Rao, zhong jiang"
* tag 'powerpc-4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (234 commits)
powerpc/mm/book3s/radix: Add mapping statistics
powerpc/uaccess: Enable get_user(u64, *p) on 32-bit
powerpc/mm/hash: Remove unnecessary do { } while(0) loop
powerpc/64s: move machine check SLB flushing to mm/slb.c
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix build error
powerpc/mm/tlbflush: update the mmu_gather page size while iterating address range
powerpc/mm: remove warning about ‘type’ being set
powerpc/32: Include setup.h header file to fix warnings
powerpc: Move `path` variable inside DEBUG_PROM
powerpc/powermac: Make some functions static
powerpc/powermac: Remove variable x that's never read
cxl: remove a dead branch
powerpc/powermac: Add missing include of header pmac.h
powerpc/kexec: Use common error handling code in setup_new_fdt()
powerpc/xmon: Add address lookup for percpu symbols
powerpc/mm: remove huge_pte_offset_and_shift() prototype
powerpc/lib: Use patch_site to patch copy_32 functions once cache is enabled
powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler.
powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segements
powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
...
Linux kernel
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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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.
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