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Linus Torvalds dac94e2911 - A couple DM thin provisioning fixes
- A few request-based DM and DM multipath fixes for issues that were
   made when merging Christoph's changes with Bart's changes for 4.12
 
 - A DM bufio unsigned overflow fix
 
 - A couple pure fixes for the DM cache target.
 
 - Various very small tweaks to the DM cache target that enable
   considerable speed improvements in the face of continuous IO.  Given
   that the cache target was significantly reworked for 4.12 I see no
   reason to sit on these advances until 4.13 considering the favorable
   results associated with such minimalist tweaks.
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Merge tag 'for-4.12/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:

 - a couple DM thin provisioning fixes

 - a few request-based DM and DM multipath fixes for issues that were
   made when merging Christoph's changes with Bart's changes for 4.12

 - a DM bufio unsigned overflow fix

 - a couple pure fixes for the DM cache target.

 - various very small tweaks to the DM cache target that enable
   considerable speed improvements in the face of continuous IO. Given
   that the cache target was significantly reworked for 4.12 I see no
   reason to sit on these advances until 4.13 considering the favorable
   results associated with such minimalist tweaks.

* tag 'for-4.12/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache: handle kmalloc failure allocating background_tracker struct
  dm bufio: make the parameter "retain_bytes" unsigned long
  dm mpath: multipath_clone_and_map must not return -EIO
  dm mpath: don't return -EIO from dm_report_EIO
  dm rq: add a missing break to map_request
  dm space map disk: fix some book keeping in the disk space map
  dm thin metadata: call precommit before saving the roots
  dm cache policy smq: don't do any writebacks unless IDLE
  dm cache: simplify the IDLE vs BUSY state calculation
  dm cache: track all IO to the cache rather than just the origin device's IO
  dm cache policy smq: stop preemptively demoting blocks
  dm cache policy smq: put newly promoted entries at the top of the multiqueue
  dm cache policy smq: be more aggressive about triggering a writeback
  dm cache policy smq: only demote entries in bottom half of the clean multiqueue
  dm cache: fix incorrect 'idle_time' reset in IO tracker
2017-05-17 14:21:15 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-05-16 09:24:44 -07:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation mm, docs: update memory.stat description with workingset* entries 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
drivers - A couple DM thin provisioning fixes 2017-05-17 14:21:15 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2017-05-15 15:27:02 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-15 15:50:49 -07:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-15 15:50:49 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-15 15:50:49 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-12 12:10:38 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-15 15:50:49 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt Second round of KVM/ARM Changes for v4.12. 2017-05-09 12:51:49 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +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 kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.