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Linus Torvalds d35a878ae1 - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache.  The bio-prison-v2
   interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
   work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
   dispatch to the DM cache core.  So the dm-cache policies are much more
   nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit.  One immediate
   benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
   adaptive to changing workloads.
 
 - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
   additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
   information.
 
 - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target that
   builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.
 
 - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
   the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
   support.
 
 - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash crypto
   API (this helps work better with architectures that have access to
   off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU utilization).
 
 - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
   Bart and Christoph.
 
 - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
   discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.
 
 - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
   new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin changes
   to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.
 
 - A couple DM core cleanups.
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Merge tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
   whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2
   interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
   work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
   dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more
   nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate
   benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
   adaptive to changing workloads.

 - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
   additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
   information.

 - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target
   that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.

 - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
   the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
   support.

 - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash
   crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have
   access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU
   utilization).

 - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
   Bart and Christoph.

 - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
   discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.

 - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
   new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin
   changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.

 - A couple DM core cleanups.

* tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits)
  dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds
  dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
  dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes
  dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit()
  dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH
  dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code
  dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime
  dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime
  dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create()
  dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
  dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress
  dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop
  dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use
  dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
  dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block
  dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant
  dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin()
  dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state
  dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API
  dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues
  ...
2017-05-03 10:31:20 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2017-05-02 18:24:16 -07:00
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certs KEYS: Use structure to capture key restriction function and data 2017-04-04 14:10:10 -07:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.