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Martin Schwidefsky ce3dc44749 s390: add support for virtually mapped kernel stacks
With virtually mapped kernel stacks the kernel stack overflow detection
is now fault based, every stack has a guard page in the vmalloc space.
The panic_stack is renamed to nodat_stack and is used for all function
that need to run without DAT, e.g. memcpy_real or do_start_kdump.

The main effect is a reduction in the kernel image size as with vmap
stacks the old style overflow checking that adds two instructions per
function is not needed anymore. Result from bloat-o-meter:

add/remove: 20/1 grow/shrink: 13/26854 up/down: 2198/-216240 (-214042)

In regard to performance the micro-benchmark for fork has a hit of a
few microseconds, allocating 4 pages in vmalloc space is more expensive
compare to an order-2 page allocation. But with real workload I could
not find a noticeable difference.

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2018-10-09 11:20:57 +02:00
arch s390: add support for virtually mapped kernel stacks 2018-10-09 11:20:57 +02:00
block blk-cgroup: increase number of supported policies 2018-09-11 10:59:53 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation Merge gitolite.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-09-18 09:31:53 +02:00
drivers s390/monwriter: do not use stack buffers for hardware data 2018-10-09 11:20:53 +02:00
firmware
fs Various ext4 bug fixes; primarily making ext4 more robust against 2018-09-17 09:13:47 +02:00
include init: add arch_call_rest_init to allow stack switching 2018-10-09 11:20:55 +02:00
init init: add arch_call_rest_init to allow stack switching 2018-10-09 11:20:55 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm: properly return EIDRM in shm_lock() 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
kernel Vaibhav Nagarnaik found that modifying the ring buffer size could cause 2018-09-19 07:41:46 +02:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix three typos in help text 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
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mm overlayfs fixes for 4.19-rc4 2018-09-13 19:21:40 -10:00
net net/ipv6: do not copy dst flags on rt init 2018-09-17 19:42:14 -07:00
samples
scripts linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
security Revert "x86/mm/legacy: Populate the user page-table with user pgd's" 2018-09-14 17:08:45 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
tools Merge gitolite.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-09-18 09:31:53 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
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.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
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CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 4.19-rc5 2018-09-20 09:50:49 +02:00
Makefile linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
README

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.
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.