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The main thing here is a new implementation of the in-kernel XICS interrupt controller emulation for POWER9 machines, from Ben Herrenschmidt. POWER9 has a new interrupt controller called XIVE (eXternal Interrupt Virtualization Engine) which is able to deliver interrupts directly to guest virtual CPUs in hardware without hypervisor intervention. With this new code, the guest still sees the old XICS interface but performance is better because the XICS emulation in the host uses the XIVE directly rather than going through a XICS emulation in firmware. Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S [cherry-picked fix] arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive.c [include asm/debugfs.h]
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.