Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 May 2016 10:00:25 -0700 | Subject | Linux 4.7-rc1 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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Usually I close the merge window on a Sunday afternoon, but I've been known to be annoyed with stragglers and close things a day early. This time, to spice things up, I decided to just release on Sunday morning instead.
[ And yes, before you ask , my life really is boring if this is "spicing things up" ]
The morning release is partly because I don't have anything I know of pending (and if there was somebody who was planning on sending their last-minute changes five minutes before the usual afternoon release, I really can't be bothered to care). And partly because I think it's been a fine merge window, and we have plenty of new code to close it with.
And I'm not saying that because the 4.7 merge window is particularly large - it looks pretty normal, and decidedly smaller then 4.6 was. But we have all the usual driver updates, but this time around we have a fairly big change to the vfs layer that allows filesystems (if they buy into it) to do readdir() and path component lookup in parallel within the same directory.
That's probably the biggest conceptual vfs change we've had since we started doing cached pathname lookups using RCU.
That said, the actual *code* changes for that all are fairly small, and are dwarfed by all the usual driver updates. In fact, none of the filesystem updates even show up on the default "dirstat" statistics (because git dirstat by default cuts off showing things at 3%). So when it comes to the bulk of the work, we have the usual distribution: about two thirds drivers (gpu and network drivers dominate, but it's all over) and the rest is mostly arch updates, documentation, networking, and "misc" (which is where the vfs changes are hiding).
While this isn't a huge release, it's certainly big enough that even the shortlog is much too big to post or read to get an overview, so appended is my normal mergelog summary. And as such, remember that the people credited are the people I pull the changes from, which is not necessarily at all the people who actually wrote the code.
Just to give people a sense of the disparity between the maintainer list below and the number of people submitting patches, there are about 1400 authors in total for the stuff that came in during the merge window.
Anyway, enough blathering. Go out and test. And in particular, if you're a low-level filesystem person, or involved in other ways in path component lookup (security layer etc), go check that everything looks ok, and if your filesystem isn't one that does parallel lookups or readdirs yet (because locking issues), take a look at that too.
Linus
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Al Viro (12): parallel filesystem directory handling update cifs xattr updates 'struct path' constification update vfs cleanups remaining vfs xattr work cifs iovec cleanups parallel lookup fixups iov_iter cleanups misc vfs cleanups vfs xattr regression fixes vfs iov_iter regression fix vfs fixes
Alex Williamson (1): VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (1): RTC updates
Andrew Morton (5): updates more updates yet more updates fixes misc updates and fixes
Anna Schumaker (1): NFS client updates
Arnd Bergmann (10): ARM SoC cleanups and fixes ARM SoC platform updates ARM SoC 64-bit changes ARM DT updates ARM 64-bit DT updates ARM SoC defconfig updates ARM SoC driver updates asm-generic cleanup ARM SoC late DT updates ARM SoC fixes
Bjorn Andersson (2): rpmsg updates remoteproc updates
Bjorn Helgaas (1): PCI updates
Bob Peterson (1): GFS2 updates
Borislav Petkov (1): EDAC updates
Brian Norris (2): MTD updates MTD fixes
Bruce Fields (1): nfsd updates
Chris Mason (2): btrfs updates btrfs cleanups and fixes
Chris Metcalf (1): arch/tile updates
Corey Minyard (1): IPMI updates
Dan Williams (1): libnvdimm updates
Darren Hart (1): x86 platform driver updates
Dave Airlie (3): drm updates header warning fix drm fixes
Dave Chinner (1): xfs updates
Dave Kleikamp (1): jfs updates
David Miller (3): networking updates networking fixes and more updates sparc updates
David Vrabel (1): xen bug fixes
David Woodhouse (1): intel IOMMU updates
Dmitry Torokhov (2): input updates more input subsystem updates
Doug Ledford (2): rdma updates more rdma updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1): m68k updates
George Spelvin (1): string hash improvements
Greg KH (5): tty and serial driver updates USB updates char / misc driver updates driver core updates staging and IIO driver updates
Greg Ungerer (1): m68knommu update
Guenter Roeck (1): hwmon updates
Helge Deller (1): parisc updates
Herbert Xu (2): crypto update crypto fix
Ingo Molnar (19): core/lib update RCU updates core signal updates EFI updates locking changes support for killable rwsems perf updates RAS updates scheduler updates x86 asm updates x86 boot updates x86-64 defconfig update x86 cleanup x86 debug cleanup x86 platform updates objtool build fix perf updates scheduler fixes x86 fixes
Jacek Anaszewski (1): LED updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1): f2fs updates
James Bottomley (1): SCSI updates
James Hogan (1): metag architecture updates
James Morris (3): security subsystem updates more security subsystem updates Yama locking fix
Jan Kara (1): UDF fixes
Jassi Brar (1): mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (1): hwmon fixlets
Jens Axboe (3): core block layer updates block driver updates block fixes
Jiri Kosina (3): trivial tree updates livepatching updates HID updates
Joerg Roedel (1): IOMMU updates
Jon Corbet (1): Documentation updates
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1): iscsi_ibft updates
Lee Jones (1): MFD updates
Ley Foon Tan (1): nios2 update
Linus Walleij (2): GPIO updates pin control updates
Mark Brown (4): regmap updates regulator updates regulator fix spi updates
Martin Schwidefsky (1): s390 updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): media updates
Michael Ellerman (1): powerpc updates
Michael Tsirkin (1): virtio updates
Michal Marek (3): kbuild updates kconfig update misc kbuild updates
Michal Simek (1): Microblaze updates
Mike Snitzer (1): device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (1): overlayfs update
Nicholas Bellinger (1): SCSI target updates
Olof Johansson (1): chrome platform updates
Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM updates
Paul Moore (1): audit updates
Radim Krčmář (1): second batch of KVM updates
Rafael Wysocki (5): power management updates ACPI updates device properties update more power management updates ACPI fix
Ralf Baechle (2): MIPS updates more MIPS updates
Richard Weinberger (2): UBI/UBIFS updates UML updates
Rob Herring (1): devicetree updates
Ross Zwisler (1): DAX locking updates
Russell King (1): ARM updates
Sage Weil (1): Ceph updates
Sebastian Reichel (2): HSI updates power supply and reset updates
Shaohua Li (1): MD updates
Shuah Khan (1): kselftest updates
Stephen Boyd (1): clk updates
Steve French (2): cifs updates cifs fixes
Steven Rostedt (5): tracing ring-buffer fixes tracing updates localmodconfig updates motr tracing updates tracing fix
Takashi Iwai (2): sound updates more sound updates
Ted Ts'o (1): ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (3): libata updates libata ZAC support libata sata_dwc_460ex updates
Thierry Reding (1): pwm updates
Thomas Gleixner (2): timer updates irq updates
Tomi Valkeinen (1): fbdev updates
Tony Luck (1): ia64 updates
Ulf Hansson (2): MMC updates MMC fixes
Vineet Gupta (1): ARC updates
Vinod Koul (1): dmaengine updates
Vishal Verma (1): misc DAX updates
Will Deacon (2): arm64 updates arm64 perf updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1): watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (3): i2c updates more i2c updates i2c fix
Zhang Rui (1): thermal management updates
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