Linux kernel
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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.
Linus Torvalds
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a pile of various smaller fixes. Most of them aren't
very interesting so this just highlights things worth mentioning:
- Various filesystems contained the same little helper to convert
from the mode of a dentry to the DT_* type of that dentry.
They have now all been switched to rely on the generic
fs_umode_to_dtype() helper. All custom helpers are removed (Jeff)
- Fsnotify now reports ACCESS and MODIFY events for splice
(Chung-Chiang Cheng)
- After converting timerfd a long time ago to rely on
wait_event_interruptible_*() apis, convert eventfd as well. This
removes the complex open-coded wait code (Wen Yang)
- Simplify sysctl registration for devpts, avoiding the declaration
of two tables. Instead, just use a prefixed path with
register_sysctl() (Luis)
- The setattr_should_drop_sgid() helper is now exported so NFS can
use it. By switching NFS to this helper an NFS setgid inheritance
bug is fixed (me)"
* tag 'v6.4/vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode()
pnode: pass mountpoint directly
eventfd: use wait_event_interruptible_locked_irq() helper
splice: report related fsnotify events
fs: consolidate duplicate dt_type helpers
nfs: use vfs setgid helper
Update relatime comments to include equality
fs/buffer: Remove redundant assignment to err
fs_context: drop the unused lsm_flags member
fs/namespace: fnic: Switch to use %ptTd
Documentation: update idmappings.rst
devpts: simplify two-level sysctl registration for pty_kern_table
eventpoll: align comment with nested epoll limitation