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Linus Torvalds 6fb44438a5 arm64 updates for 6.17:
Perf and PMU updates:
 
  - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs
 
  - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts between
    clock domains within a given instance
 
  - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
    minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval
 
  - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)
 
  - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes
 
  - Minor driver fixes and cleanups
 
 Hardware features:
 
  - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)
 
  - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
    tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)
 
  - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on hardware
    with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB conflict aborts
 
 Software features:
 
  - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
    and using the text-poke API for late module relocations
 
  - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
    arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives
 
 ACPI:
 
  - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR table
 
 Debug:
 
  - Simplify the debug exception entry path
 
  - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros
 
 Kselftests:
 
  - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests
 
 Miscellaneous:
 
  - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()
 
  - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling
 
  - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic
 
  - Remove redundant gcs_free() call
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions
  (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for
  store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal
  handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on.

  There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require
  break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and
  non-contiguous.

  More details:

  Perf and PMU updates:

   - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs

   - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts
     between clock domains within a given instance

   - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
     minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval

   - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)

   - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes

   - Minor driver fixes and cleanups

  Hardware features:

   - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)

   - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
     tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)

   - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on
     hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB
     conflict aborts

  Software features:

   - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
     and using the text-poke API for late module relocations

   - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
     arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives

  ACPI:

   - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR
     table

  Debug:

   - Simplify the debug exception entry path

   - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros

  Kselftests:

   - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests

  Miscellaneous:

   - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()

   - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling

   - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic

   - Remove redundant gcs_free() call"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
  arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
  arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
  arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
  kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
  arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
  kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
  arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
  arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
  drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
  drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
  perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
  perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
  ...
2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
arch arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
block Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Crypto library updates for 6.17 2025-07-28 17:58:52 -07:00
Documentation arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
drivers arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
fs Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
include arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
init x86/boot changes for v6.17: 2025-07-29 18:58:22 -07:00
io_uring for-6.17/io_uring-20250728 2025-07-28 16:30:12 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
lib s390 updates for 6.17 merge window 2025-07-29 20:17:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
net s390 updates for 6.17 merge window 2025-07-29 20:17:08 -07:00
rust Locking updates for v6.16: 2025-07-29 18:11:32 -07:00
samples Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
scripts s390 updates for 6.17 merge window 2025-07-29 20:17:08 -07:00
security Landlock update for v6.17-rc1 2025-07-28 19:21:32 -07:00
sound A treewide cleanup of struct cycle_counter const annotations: 2025-07-29 14:02:53 -07:00
tools arm64 updates for 6.17: 2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-06-24 12:20:17 -07:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap 11 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-07-24 19:13:30 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS mm: update MAINTAINERS entry for HMM 2025-07-19 19:26:16 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS x86/platform changes for v6.17: 2025-07-29 20:05:06 -07:00
Makefile hardening updates for v6.17-rc1 2025-07-28 17:16:12 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -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 reStructuredText 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.