Linux 6.1-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Oct 16 2022 - 19:02:00 EST


You all know the drill: it's Sunday afternoon, the two weeks of merge
window are over, and now we're supposed to start calming things down.

This isn't actually shaping up to be a particularly large release: we
"only" have 11.5k non-merge commits during this merge window, compared
to 13.5k last time around. So not exactly tiny, but smaller than the
last few releases. At least in number of commits.

That said, we've got a few core things that have been brewing for a
long time, most notably the multi-gen LRU VM series, and the initial
Rust scaffolding (no actual real Rust code in the kernel yet, but the
infrastructure is there).

And hey, this merge window was full of surprises for other reasons too
- my main machine was basically out of action for a couple of days
because it suddenly started showing memory problems, and it took me a
couple of days to get that sorted out (to a large degree because it
was unexpected and I started out blaming a kernel bug for the memory
corruption). All sorted out now, but it caused some frustration.

Talking about frustration, let me just say that after I got my machine
sorted out and caught up with the merge window, I wass somewhat
frustrated with various late pull requests. I've mentioned this
before, but it's _really_ quite annoying to get quite a few pull
requests in the last few days of the merge window.

Yes, the merge window is two weeks, but that's very much to allow me
time to look things over, not "two weeks to hurriedly put together a
branch that you send Linus on Friday of the second week". The whole
"do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the dealine" is
something that should have gone out the window after highschool. Not
for kernel development.

The rule is that things that get sent to me should be ready *before*
the merge window opens, not be made ready during the merge window.
With some slack for "life happens", of course, but I really get the
feeling that a few people treat the end of the merge window as a
deadline, missing the whole "it was supposed to be ready before the
merge window".

You know who you are.

Anyway, it's not the first time I've said this, I doubt it will be the
last. But maybe more people could take it to heart, ok?

Enough kvetching, let's get this party calmed down. The merge window
may not be the biggest ever, but it's certainly big enough that the
shortlog is much too big to post, and below is just my usual merge
log. For all the gory details, please refer to the git tree.

Please get the testing started,

Linus

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Al Viro (7):
coredump fix
vfs inode update
vfs d_path updates
vfs file updates
misc tomoyo changes
vfs constification updates
vfs tmpfile updates

Al Vrio (1):
file_inode() updates

Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates

Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates

Andreas Gruenbacher (2):
gfs2 updates
gfs2 debugfs updates

Andrew Morton (4):
MM updates
non-MM updates
misc hotfixes
more MM updates

Anna Schumaker (1):
NFS client updates

Ard Biesheuvel (1):
EFI updates

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tools updates
more perf tools updates

Arnd Bergmann (7):
ARM defconfig updates
ARM driver updates
ARM devicetree updates
ARM SoC updates
asm-generic updates
ARM SoC fixes
asm-generic fix

Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
gpio updates

Benjamin Tissoires (1):
HID updates

Bjorn Andersson (2):
rpmsg updates
remoteproc updates

Bjorn Helgaas (2):
pci updates
pci fix

Borislav Petkov (14):
EDAC updates
x86 platform update
x86 RTC cleanups
x86 SGX update
x86 cpu updates
x86 RAS updates
x86 APIC update
x86 core fixes
x86 asm update
misc x86 fixes
x86 paravirt fix
x75 microcode loader updates
x86 cache resource control updates
x86 cleanups

Casey Schaufler (1):
smack updates

Catalin Marinas (2):
arm64 updates
arm64 fixes

Christian Brauner (2):
vfs acl updates
fatfs vfsuid conversion

Christoph Hellwig (1):
dma-mapping updates

Chuck Lever (2):
nfsd updates
more nfsd updates

Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates

Damien Le Moal (1):
ata updates

Dan Williams (1):
nvdimm updates

Darrick Wong (1):
iomap updates

Dave Airlie (3):
drm updates
drm fix
more drm updates

Dave Chinner (1):
xfs updates

Dave Hansen (1):
x86 mm updates

David Sterba (2):
btrfs updates
affs update

David Teigland (1):
dlm updates

Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates

Dominik Brodowski (1):
PCMCIA updates

Dominique Martinet (1):
9p updates

Eric Biederman (4):
kthread update
mqueue fix
ptrace update
ucounts update

Eric Biggers (3):
fscrypt updates
fsverity updates
STATX_DIOALIGN support

Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates

Greg KH (5):
tty/serial driver updates
USB / Thunderbolt updates
driver core updates
char/misc and other driver updates
staging driver updates

Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu updates

Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates

Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates

Helge Deller (2):
fbdev updates
parisc updates

Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates

Huacai Chen (1):
LoongArch updates

Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates

Ingo Molnar (5):
scheduler updates
perf events updates
locking updates
objtool updates
PSI updates

Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates

Jakub Kicinski (2):
networking updates
networking fixes

James Bottomley (1):
SCSI updates

Jan Kara (2):
fsnotify updates
ext2, udf, reiserfs, and quota updates

Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm updates

Jason Donenfeld (2):
random number generator updates
more random number generator updates

Jason Gunthorpe (1):
rdma updates

Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates

Jean Delvare (1):
dmi updates

Jens Axboe (5):
io_uring updates
block updates
passthrough updates
more io_uring updates
more block updates

Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates

Jonathan Corbet (2):
documentation updates
documentation fixes

Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates

Kees Cook (4):
Rust introductory support
execve updates
kcfi updates
kernel hardening updates

Lee Jones (2):
backlight update
MFD updates

Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates

Luis Chamberlain (2):
module updates
sysctl updates

Mark Brown (3):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates

Masahiro Yamada (2):
Kbuild updates
Kbuild fixes

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates

Max Filippov (1):
xtensa updates

Michael Ellerman (2):
powerpc updates
powerpc fixes

Michael Tsirkin (2):
virtio updates
virtio fixes

Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates

Mickaël Salaün (1):
landlock updates

Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs update

Mike Rapoport (1):
memblock updates

Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity updates

Miquel Raynal (1):
MTD updates

Palmer Dabbelt (2):
RISC-V updates
more RISC-V updates

Paolo Bonzini (2):
kvm updates
more kvm updates

Paul McKenney (3):
nolibc updates
LKMM (Linux Kernel Memory Model) updates
RCU updates

Paul Moore (3):
SELinux updates
LSM updates
audit updates

Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates

Petr Mladek (2):
printk updates
livepatching updates

Rafael Wysocki (6):
ACPI updates
power management updates
thermal control updates
more ACPI updates
more power management updates
more thermal control updates

Richard Weinberger (2):
UML updates
UBI and UBIFS updates

Rob Herring (2):
devicetree updates
devicetree fixes

Russell King (2):
ARM fixes
ARM updates

Sebastian Reichel (2):
HSI updates
power supply and reset updates

Shuah Khan (4):
Kselftest updates
KUnit updates
more Kselftest updates
more KUnit updates

Stafford Horne (1):
OpenRISC updates

Stephen Boyd (2):
clk updates
more clk updates

Steve French (3):
ksmbd updates
cifs updates
more cifs updates

Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing updates
tracing fixes

Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes

Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates

Tejun Heo (1):
cgroup updates

Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates

Thomas Bogendoerfer (1):
MIPS updates

Thomas Gleixner (3):
preempt RT updates
timer updates
interrupt updates

Tzung-Bi Shih (1):
chrome platform updates

Ulf Hansson (2):
MMC updates
MMC fixes

Vasily Gorbik (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates

Vinod Koul (3):
dmaengine updates
phy updates
soundwire updates

Vlastimil Babka (2):
slab fixes
slab hotfix

Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (2):
i2c updates
more i2c updates

Yury Norov (1):
bitmap updates