Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 16 Sep 2017 16:44:01 -0700 | Subject | Linux 4.14-rc1 |
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Yes, I realize this is a day early, and yes, I realize that if I had waited until tomorrow, I would also have hit the 26th anniversary of the Linux-0.01 release, but neither of those undeniable facts made me want to wait with closing the mege window.
This has been an "interesting" merge window. It's not actually all that unusual in size - I think it's shaping to be a pretty regular release after 4.13 that was smallish. But unlike 4.13 it also wasn't a completely smooth merge window, and honestly, I _really_ didn't want to wait for any possible straggling pull requests.
Don't get me wrong - things don't look bad, but I hate it when I find issues during the merge window that I feel should have been noticed before the code made it to me, and it happened a few times this release.
Admittedly, some of it was simply because we had some unusual activity. For example, on the x86 VM side, 4.14 doesn't just have _one_ new core memory management feature, but three: 5-level page tables, ASID support (it's called "PCID" on x86 for reasons that are not good) and the AMD memory encryption support. So the fact that we had a few hiccups is very understandable, and in fact it should amaze everybody just how smoothly the 5-level page table code integration seems to have gone, for example.
So 4.14 is getting some very core new functionality.
Obviously, as usual, those kinds of core changes are absolutely dwarfed by all the device driver updates, that as usual are the bulk of the patches. This time around, particularly notable is a late addition to the merge window - or rather, a late removal - in that we've finally gotten rid of the firmware images from the kernel tree. That's because people haven't used them for the last few years, since there's a separate firmware image repository.
But there's changes all over. Documentation, architecture updates, filesystems, networking, tooling. This was not a small release, even if I had kind of expected that with much of Europe on vacation in August we'd have seen a slow-down. Nope.
Anyway, as always, the shortlog is much too big to post, so appended is the "mergelog", and as always the credit in the merge log goes not to who wrote the patches, but to the maintainer who actually sent it to me for merging. So there's about 90 maintainers mentioned there, but it should be noted that we have 1500+ individual authors for the 11,500+ individual non-merge commits. So this is very much just a very high-level overview of the merges I've done, and if you want to see details, you'll need to go look at the git tree logs.
Linus
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Al Viro (6): misc fixes ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t more set_fs removal mount flag updates nowait read support misc leftovers
Alex Williamson (1): VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (1): RTC updates
Andrew Morton (3): updates more updates misc fixes
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1): fbdev updates
Ben LaHaise (1): aio fix
Bjorn Andersson (2): remoteproc updates rpmsg updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2): PCI updates PCI fix
Bob Peterson (1): GFS2 updates
Boris Brezillon (1): MTD updates
Borislav Petkov (1): EDAC updates
Bruce Fields (1): nfsd updates
Catalin Marinas (1): arm64 updates
Chris Mason (1): zstd support
Christoph Hellwig (2): uuid updates dma-mapping updates
Dan Williams (1): libnvdimm
Darren Hart (1): x86 platform driver updates
Darrick Wong (1): XFS updates
Dave Airlie (2): drm updates drm AMD fixes
David Miller (4): networking updates networking fixes sparc updates networking fixes
David Sterba (1): btrfs updates
David Teigland (1): dlm updates
Dmitry Torokhov (2): input updates more input updates
Doug Ledford (1): rdma updates
Eric Biederman (1): namespace updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1): m68k updates
Greg KH (6): USB/PHY driver updates tty/serial updates staging/IIO driver updates driver core update char/misc driver updates firmware removal
Greg Ungerer (1): m68knommu updates
Guenter Roeck (1): hwmon updates
Helge Deller (1): parisc updates
Herbert Xu (1): crypto updates
Ilya Dryomov (1): ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (24): debugobjects fix perf updates RAS fix RCU updates scheduler updates x86 asm updates x86 boot updates x86 build updates x86 cpuid updates x86 debug updates x86 microcode loading updates x86 spinlock update syscall updates locking updates x86 mm changes x86 platform updates EFI updates irq fixes perf tooling updates scheduler fixes x86 fixes x86 fixes scheduler fixes perf fixes
Jacek Anaszewski (1): LED updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1): f2fs updates
James Bottomley (2): SCSI updates SCSI fixes
Jan Kara (2): UDF, reiserfs, quota, fsnotify cleanups quota scaling updates
Jassi Brar (1): mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (1): dmi update
Jeff Layton (2): file locking updates writeback error handling updates
Jens Axboe (3): block layer updates followup block layer updates block fixes
Jessica Yu (1): modules updates
Jiri Kosina (1): HID update
Joerg Roedel (1): IOMMU updates
Jonathan Corbet (2): documentation updates documentation fixes
Juergen Gross (1): xen updates
Kees Cook (3): pstore update gcc plugins update secureexec update
Lee Jones (2): MFD updates backlight updates
Ley Foon Tan (1): arch/nios2 update
Linus Walleij (3): pin control updates GPIO updates pin control fixes
Marcel Holtmann (1): bluetooth fix
Mark Brown (2): spi updates regulator updates
Martin Schwidefsky (2): s390 updates more s390 updates
Masahiro Yamada (1): Kbuild updates
Matt Turner (1): alpha updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): media updates
Michael Ellerman (2): powerpc updates powerpc fix
Mike Marshall (1): orangefs updates
Mike Snitzer (1): device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (2): overlayfs updates fuse updates
Olof Johansson (3): ARM/arm64 SoC platform updates ARM SoC driver updates ARM/arm64 Devicetree updates
Paolo Bonzini (1): more KVM updates
Paul Moore (2): audit updates selinux updates
Petr Mladek (1): printk updates
Radim Krčmář (1): KVM updates
Rafael Wysocki (3): power management updates ACPI updates device properties framework updates
Ralf Baechle (1): MIPS updates
Richard Weinberger (2): UML updates UBI updates
Rob Herring (1): DeviceTree updates
Rodrigo Vivi (1): i916 drm fixes
Russell King (1): ARM updates
Sebastian Reichel (1): power supply and reset changes
Shaohua Li (1): MD updates
Shuah Khan (1): kselftest updates
Stafford Horne (1): OpenRISC fixlet
Stephen Boyd (1): clk updates
Steve French (1): cifs update
Steven Rostedt (1): tracing updates
Takashi Iwai (2): sound updates sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (1): ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (4): percpu updates workqueue updates cgroup updates libata updates
Thierry Reding (1): pwm updates
Thomas Gleixner (5): timer fixes irq updates CPU hotplug fix x86 cache quality monitoring update x86 apic updates
Trond Myklebust (2): NFS client updates more NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (1): MMC updates
Vineet Gupta (1): ARC updates
Vinod Koul (1): dmaengine updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1): watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (2): i2c updates more i2c updates
Zhang Rui (1): thermal updates
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