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Linus Torvalds b923f1247b A set oftimekeeping/VDSO updates:
- Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
    implementation.
 
    S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the counter
    read function when time namespace support is enabled. Adding the pointer
    is a NOOP for all other architectures because the compiler is supposed
    to optimize that out when it is unused in the architecture specific
    inline. The change also solved a similar problem for MIPS which
    fortunately has time namespaces not yet enabled.
 
    S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
    timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another sequence
    counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is to utilize the
    already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The core code now exposes
    helper functions which allow to serialize against the timekeeper code
    and against concurrent readers.
 
    S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
    common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It now has
    an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which defaults to an
    empty struct.
 
    Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
    allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support to
    work from a common upstream base.
 
  - A trivial comment fix.
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Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:

   - Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
     implementation.

     S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
     counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
     Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
     the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
     the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
     problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
     enabled.

     S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
     timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
     sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
     to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
     core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
     against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.

     S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
     common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
     now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
     defaults to an empty struct.

     Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
     allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
     to work from a common upstream base.

   - A trivial comment fix"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Delete repeated words in comments
  lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
  timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
  vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()
2020-08-14 14:26:08 -07:00
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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.