Commit eb899417 authored by Linus Walleij's avatar Linus Walleij
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Merge tag 'v4.8-rc2' into devel

Linux 4.8-rc2
parents 313b9a99 694d0d0b
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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ add_random (RW)
This file allows to turn off the disk entropy contribution. Default
value of this file is '1'(on).

dax (RO)
--------
This file indicates whether the device supports Direct Access (DAX),
used by CPU-addressable storage to bypass the pagecache.  It shows '1'
if true, '0' if not.

discard_granularity (RO)
-----------------------
This shows the size of internal allocation of the device in bytes, if
@@ -46,6 +52,12 @@ hw_sector_size (RO)
-------------------
This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.

io_poll (RW)
------------
When read, this file shows the total number of block IO polls and how
many returned success.  Writing '0' to this file will disable polling
for this device.  Writing any non-zero value will enable this feature.

iostats (RW)
-------------
This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the
@@ -151,5 +163,11 @@ device state. This means that it might not be safe to toggle the
setting from "write back" to "write through", since that will also
eliminate cache flushes issued by the kernel.

write_same_max_bytes (RO)
-------------------------
This is the number of bytes the device can write in a single write-same
command.  A value of '0' means write-same is not supported by this
device.


Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, February 2009
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@@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ N: meson
ARM/Annapurna Labs ALPINE ARCHITECTURE
M:	Tsahee Zidenberg <tsahee@annapurnalabs.com>
M:	Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S:	Maintained
F:	arch/arm/mach-alpine/
F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/alpine*
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VERSION = 4
PATCHLEVEL = 8
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
EXTRAVERSION = -rc2
NAME = Psychotic Stoned Sheep

# *DOCUMENTATION*
@@ -635,13 +635,6 @@ endif
# Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one
KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)

PHONY += gcc-plugins
gcc-plugins: scripts_basic
ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS
	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/gcc-plugins
endif
	@:

include scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins

ifdef CONFIG_READABLE_ASM
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@@ -461,6 +461,15 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG

endchoice

config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
	bool
	help
	  An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
	  frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
	  or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
	  and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
	  which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.

config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
	bool
	help
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config ARM
	select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL if (AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)
	select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE if (CPU_32v7M || CPU_32v7) && !CPU_32v6
	select HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY
	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
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